Part 1 of Essay
Geoffrey Chaucer creates an amazing use of satire by exaggerating his characters' conduct in The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's characters reveal their true personalities and set up numerous situations in tales told to make their characteristics more than obvious. The author of "Everyman" presented moralities by way of iro ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... states to the people "and after that I tell my tales; I show bulls of popes, cardinals, patriarchs, and bishops; and I speak a few words in Latin, to give color and flavor to my preaching, and to stir them to devotion." (Chaucer, 339) To think that anybody would bluntly tell of their deceitful ways to people that confided and believed in everything they said is another tactic used by Chaucer to exaggerate what he is trying to get his audience to see. He provides many exaggerated examples of the Pardoner de ....