Based on the excerpts you read from the canterbury tales, what do you think was chaucer’s view of the church? what characters are used to symbolize the methods of the church, its strengths and its fallacies? describe at least three examples of characters, including direct quotes from the text.

Nun seems flirtatious and too much involved with appearances to be holy.

Monks are materialistic with his hunting dogs and horses, fancy clothes, and no time for studying the good book and the rules of St. Benet who said monks should be impoverished, chaste, and obedient to God. 

Friar seems to be bribing young ladies to give him sexual favors and then finds them, husbands. He knows the taverns and inns better than the poor whom he is supposed to be serving.

Pardoner--cons people into buying holy relics that are frauds--the pillowcase he said was Mary's veil,  the cloth he said was part of Peter's sail, etc.

Summoner--appears to be a drunkard and his carbuncle-covered face suggested in Chaucer's time that he was a lewd and lecherous individual.  He also puts on airs with his very limited Latin.

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explanation:

the answer is industry