Irony of the Monk

Chaucer explains each character with much detail, but the one that stuck out the most to me was the monk. The monk is ironic and hypocritical in a way that he does nothing that a monk should do. One of the first things that stuck out to me was that the monk lives like a lord rather than a cleric. The monk also hunts which is expensive for a man of his stature and is frowned upon by his monk teachings. The man is aware of what he can and can not do but yet he disobeys the rules given to him.