Canterbury Tales - The Monk
Canterbury Tales: The Monk
Corruption under pretence of purity within the Catholic Church has been an ongoing issue dating
father back than anyone can remember. During the medieval times, the Catholic Church had become
widely notorious for hypocrisy, abuse of clerical power and the compromise of morality throughout.
Geoffrey Chaucer made a fine and somewhat darkly comical example of this through The Monk, from the
Canterbury Tales. The Monk is enlisting in a pilgrimage maybe for his love of riding, or to further line
his pockets while pardoning people for their sins. According to the main four orders of friars in the
Middle Ages, monks are supposed t take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. The contents of this
essay clearly suggest The Monk does not particularly care for these vows and is more interested in riding
and taking money for his own indulgences.
The Monk is first introduced as “a fair for the maistrie.”(Line 165), already claiming......
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