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might accrue (253) and completely ignores the poor people who wish to confess. The Friar also has the fault of focusing on alcohol instead of his religious duties, such as helping the poor or the diseased: [The Friar] [knows] the taverns well . . . Better than lepers, beggars, and that crew (246). The Friar possesses little time for religious duties. This arises from the fact that he spends the majority of it using his religious influence to extort money, committing adultery, or getting drunk. The portrayals of the clergy in The Canterbury Tales represent the growing displeasure felt toward the clergy. This vexation primarily arose from the ecclesiasts tendency to not practice what they preach. By writing his satirical frame tale, Chaucer humorously scorns those that the Europeans resented. Chaucer reveals the hypocrisy and corruption of the clergy members, and in doing so disdains them. Chaucer uses the Prioress to criticize the vanity of the clergy; and the Pardoner and Friar to illustrate dislike was caused by the materialism practiced by the clergy. By expressing an entire continents view, Chaucer sent a powerful message to the Church and clergy the people knew what they were doing and did not like it. Though expressed in a humorous manner, the truths exposed in the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales are no less true, nor is the resentment of these truths any less bitter.