Part one of term paper
In the epic poem The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer writes about religious characters. He writes about the nun, monk, parson and the pardoner. We can tell how Chaucer feels about the church and the people of the church by they way he depicts the characters. The nun is portrayed as a coy woman. Chauncer says she was known as madam eglantyn ...

Part two of term paper
... monk was portray as a fish out of water. The monk was a hunter which wasn't common for the monks. His sleeves were lined with fur and this shows that he was into things other than religion usually monks weren't supposed to be into worldly possessions. And a gold pin this also shows he was into worldly possessions. The monk doesn't believe in what saint Augustine, and his views. Chauncer doesn't like the way he acts so the monk is shown as a man of the church who doesn't follow the basic ways of th ...