Level of Society

The Pardoner lives in a social class that is beneath the working class. He cons money out of the working class by selling fake relics of the Church and pardons for sins that people have committed. The relics that he sold added a social status to those who possess them. People believe that he is part of the Church when he uses the Church's reputation to help con the working class which reflects the materialistic greed of the people in the Middle Ages.