How Does Chaucer Use Social Satire In The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury tales Chaucer use of satire would be known as social satire; Geoffrey Chaucer used social satire to show you how the governing bodies worked in his era. Some examples of social satire from the Canterbury tales would be from the “general prologue” would be the friar who represents the church, the church was a very high governing body of Medieval England, it represented holiness’ and humility. However, the friar is seen as corrupt, and a sinful man: a man like the pardoner is opposite to what they are representing in the clergymen. The way the friar acts is noticed when Chaucer states” He had arranged full many a marriage/Of women young, and this at his own cost.” (Chaucer. 212-213) this portrayed the friar as corruption