Character Personalities in The Canterbury Tales 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 ironic scenes in a morality play in which he expressed moral values that he may have felt necessary for a proper functioning society and to maintain both physical and spiritual well being. Both authors use ironic occurrences, creating a story that gets it's point across easily. In The Canterbury Ta