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Chaucer's Social Classes

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The characters in Chaucer's story represented all the classes in medieval society. It represented all levels in that class as well for instance in the story there was a priest in the lower class who liked to hunt even though he was not allowed for he was a priest he did it anyways. Well, this said priest was part of the lower class except he was in the upper lower class for he was not the poorest of the lower class. Now I'll bring the holy man into the equation. In Chaucer's stories, there was a character known as the holy man. He would go around and spread the word of god though it was not his job he felt like the world should know. This said holy man would do anything for anyone. He had no money for he gave it all away to anyone who needed
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