Among the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a wide array of personalities and beliefs. The pilgrims range from ones with little morality to ones with high standard and high morality. Some that are on the pilgrimage who are good people who do as they should, but also some that are knowingly awful. While there are examples of the two extremes, there are also some pilgrims who are in between the good and the bad. These who are stuck in the middle may be honest and respectable people with their concerns in the wrong place. The nun, for example, is a pilgrim that is somewhere in the middle of the scale of good and bad. The expectations for nuns were to be “married to God”, which would show their commitment to him for the rest of their lives and function as an oath of celibacy. They were expected to share none of the concerns of the world and to spend their time dedicated to devotion and prayer. While the nun from Canterbury Tales is religious, she has her flaws that Chaucer points out in a jocular, …show more content…
He unashamedly takes money from even the poorest of the common people while spending the majority of his time away from them. He is knowingly disobeying his role in the church and could likely be one of the members of the church that joined, not for a religious reason, but in hopes to make money. The diversity in the pilgrims shows all different types of people and types of sinning they may be guilty of, even the religious figures . While some may be like the nun, simply self-conscious about her appearance and reputation, others are as awful as the friar, who knowingly takes from the poor in order to get more money than needed to purely survive. While both of these characters have their own flaws, the friars are more than that of vanity and are further disobedient of how he is supposed to