... fun at the flaws of his characters such as the Woman from Bath City, the Doctor, and the Friar. Chaucer uses the Woman from Bath to show the deceit of an individual's rank by satirizing the idea of "worthy women" in the middle class. A worthy woman is someone who is honest, modest, and devout only to the church and her husband. When the Woman from Bath goes to church, the author ... century, friars, who were supposed to give up all worldly things and live only by begging for food and alms, were almost totally corrupt. The Friar -a.k.a. Hubert- in The Canterbury Tales is well known for f...

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