In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer introduces a variety of characters with a multitude of personalities. From the despicable Summoner to the abrasive Miller, these characters are created with their own personalities and human failings. A common flaw shared by the characters is hypocrisy. From pretending to be rich to cheating the poor, hypocritical tendencies abound in The Canterbury Tales. Throughout the story, Chaucer ridicules the human and criticizes the human failure of hypocrisy through the examples of the Pardoner, the Merchant, and the Friar. One character that Chaucer uses to ridicule hypocrisy is the Pardoner. Throughout the description of the pardoner he is shown to be corrupt. He uses lies and flattery to take advantage of people, often selling them false sacred relics: "And with these relics, every time he found some poor parish priest from the hinterland to amaze, in one short day, with less money, he attracted more than parish priest in a month or two, and with his flattery and prevarications made monkeys of the priest and the congregation" (115, 721-726). ...