In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer, lets the characters interpret the New Testament to fit the character’s lifestyles. Chaucer was familiar with the middle class, and he was raised middle class with his family wanting ultimately to participate in the upper-class society. Chaucer wrote about what he knew, at that time the influence in Chaucer’s life would have been the Catholic Church. A large part of the clergymen comprised the church’s institutional practices, and it brought doubt among the middle class. During this period, people were beginning to think for themselves, starting to question the authority. Chaucer uses humor when writing about the numerous clergymen being unethical, with the characters like the Summoner and Pardoner. Chaucer’s