Views of the Church in The Canterbury Tales 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 eglantyne. If she is a nun and people call her madam this shows that she isn't very devout to saving herself for god she isn't such a clean soul. She believes love conquers all that's not what a nun should really be conce....

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