For this essay I choose the Friar. Now in my point of view he is kind of a difficult character to work with, mainly because he isn't the best character in the story. By best I mean he isn't a well liked person. In chaucer's prologue The friar sticks to basically one word that can sum him up and that is conceited. However you could technically say that he did care for someone and that was himself and also wealth. Hurbert was his name, and he was described in the Canterbury tales as being greedy, and arrogant. Self righteous is a great work for what he was. He felt as though he was to worthy to even converse with the poor, he would only do business with the wealthy. He just didn't know how to let go of his pride. In the prologue he was also known as being very flirtatious and immoral ( Unit 1…show more content… Now I don’t know about you but that I would say is a pretty bad reputation to have. Honestly a friar was to worried about himself and his wealth that it probably didn't even faze him. It was either that or he probably loved attention so much that he didn't mind. Now this friar was a confessor and what that was, was he would have to listen to confessions that people told him, and assign the penance for them (Unit 1 lesson 19). He would stoop as low as to actually accept briberies from the parishioners to let them out of their penance. He obviously used the money for his benefit only. Originally the friar is supposed to live among the poor and to beg on their behalf and to give their earnings to aid their struggle for livelihood (Character Analysis 1). Chaucer wanted to show the true character of the friar. The friars duties was not to socialize to a point of flirting with the women, but to beg for the poor (Character Analysis 1). In other words the friar turns out to be a ladies man (Character Analysis
