Examples Of Gluttony In The Pardoner's Tale

The consumption of alcohol is a key component in medieval literature. Due to drinking water being scarce. It was often preferred to drink beer, “Beer often had a low alcohol content” (Unger 3). The lack of germ theory made it very simple for individuals to drink alcohol instead of water for fear of sickness. It was when an individual drank abhorrent amounts of this beer that their decision making abilities were compromised. Within the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, it is quite important to notice all the situations in which alcohol encouraged foolishness, but it also encouraged its own consumption. The Pardoner’s Tale has sparked my interest from the beginning. The sermon that the pardoner tells focuses on the sins of the tavern, those being gambling, drinking, and swearing. These three indulgences are what led them to their downfall later in the tale. This tale is one that utilizes alcohol consumption as a catalyst. The Pardoner’s Tale is a tale that utilizes alcohol consumption as a driving factor for the tale and the pardoner’s intentions are then revealed to be that they are not so different.

In "The Pardoners Tale," the three rioters come together to kill Death, but in doing so they come upon some things that they can't go back and change. An analysis of "The Pardoners Tale," shows how personification and irony are not so funny when Death is involved. Death is personified throughout "The Pardoners Tale. " Personification occurs when an author gives living characteristics to something that isn't living. The first example occurs when the three rioters are drinking and they hear a funeral.

The pardoner’s tale depicts that the seven deadly sins inflict human with harsh punishment. The three drunken men who are looking for the death are punished by it through seven deadly sins that once committed; the possibility to go to the heaven abates. Their each sin brings another sin so they later will be end up in extensive sin which is abolished from salvation. Three guys were guilty of gluttony, indulging in wine and lost their ability to think. When they find gold, they become very envious of each other and greedy for wealth. Gluttony unconsciously leads human to murder. When it meets with envy and avarice it is the worst sins. The sins of gluttony, envy, and avarice lead them to the death that they desire to face to.

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In “The Pardoner’s Prologue”, especially in the end of the prologue, it clearly show that his teaching and church believe are all corrupted. It really show they are selfish and greediness and also in “The Pardoner’s Tales”, we can see that there are a lot of repeat word that represent the Pardoner itself and the church believe. The Pardoner say the word gluttony and greed many times, he tells that they are bad but the way he act and speech are all ironic. Here are some quote from the tale, “O gluttony, so full of cursedness! O first cause of our trial and tribulation, Origin of all our souls’ damnation till we were purchased back by blood of Christ!”(Chaucer 498 - 501). This quote, the Pardoner all blabbing about the gluttony are very bad and the cause of all bad things. It is very ironic to what he does in the story, the pardoner get drunk and eat while he teaching.The Pardoner said, “A lecherous thing is wine, and drunknness is full of striving and of wretchedness. O drunken man, disfigured is your face, sour your breath, you’re foul to the embrace! And through you drunken nose it seems the sound is “Samson, Samson” that you would expound, Though, God knows, Samson never drank of wine”(Chaucer 549 - 555). This quote really explain what the Pardoner did and how he looks like. All of his teaching are all directly reflect into the Pardoner’s inner self.

     "The Pardoner's Tale," by Geoffrey Chaucer, makes evident the parallel between the internal emotions of people and the subconscious exposure of those emotions. This particular story, from The Canterbury Tales, is a revealing tale being told by a medieval pardoner to his companions on a journey to Canterbury. Though the Pardoner's profession is to pardon and absolve the sins of people, he actually lives in constant violation of sins such as gluttony, gambling, and, most importantly, avarice. The Pardoner does feel guilt and advocates not to commit avarice; he exclaims, "'Radix malorum est Cupiditas,'" (line 426) as his theme more than once. Because he

The Pardoner clearly does not have moral fibers. It does not concern him that one day he could become destitute and no one would help him because they are greedy. Even though greed can be a good thing if shared with everyone, Greed and the desire for riches are traps that bring ruin and destruction. Because no one will share with in your time of need, it causes you to not be concerned with other people's needs, and it is a moral sin against God.

He begins the tale describing Flemish people that are taking part in drinking and celebrating their wrongdoings uproariously. The pardoner continues to talk about their terrible lifestyle, ways they think and act. He begins to descant about the many sins that the Flemish people commit, some of the sins he explains are in the bible as, the seven deadly sins. His first sin, he describes is gluttony, and he pinpoints that gluttony is the first sin has been committed since the beginning when God created heaven and earth. He describes that they have committed sins for instance as being a drunk, gambling which is being a lover of wealth, and the last sin he talks about is swearing.

In the Pardoner, it was all about people being greed. He even said his self that greed is the root to all evil. It was in the church, between friends, family, anyone really. It was worse that it was in the church because that is God’s house and there isn’t supposed to be sin inside of the foundations of the church group. The Pardoner said that he is extremely guilty and only a pardoner for the money. He is a fraud and hypocrite. This being, showed that the church in Chaucer’s

Chaucer’s views on society are expressed through his characters in “the Canterbury Tales.” The views of medieval society, based on Chaucer, are expressed through his opinions on certain people. Throughout the tales, Chaucer praises or criticizes certain types of people over others. Chaucer usually condemns people from the Ecclesiastical class. As an example, the Pardoner is highly criticized by Chaucer because he is a fraud as stated in line 702.

While it is not the first thing that comes to mind when the sins are brought up, gluttony is a huge aspect of our society, referring to the overconsumption of goods and resources to the point of waste. Society today literally runs off of gluttony, where people on a daily basis are always after more, no matter how much they already have. This ties into greed on some levels, but it differs in that when people are gluttonous, they crave so much that things are being wasted or taken away from those who don’t have much. It is almost ironic to think that as much as we encourage giving to local food banks or volunteering at soup kitchens, we are so gluttonous and waste so much food everyday that could go to other people who have nothing and are dying of starvation. Gluttony is extremely present in the film, specifically Augustus Gloop, who practically eats his feelings.

The Pardoner consistently brings up the redemption of Christ and God throughout his tale. He polarizes original sin and Christ: "O glotonye, ful of cursednesse!/ O cause first of oure confusion!/ O original of oure dampnacioun,/ Til Christ hadde brought us with his blood again!" (210-3) He moves on to gluttony, and his nuanced technique of delivering subconscious critique becomes more apparent: "'They been enemies of Cristes crois,/ Of which the ende is deeth‹wombe is hir god!/ O wombe, O bely, O stinking cod,/ Fulfilled of dong and of corrupcioun!'" (244-7) His tale takes place while the Pilgrims (and the Pardoner) are drinking at an inn, and his further attacks on alcohol reveal his blatant hypocritical values: "A lecherous thing is win, and dronkenesse/ Is ful of striving and of wrecchednesse./ O dronke man, disfigured is thy face!/ Sour is thy breeth, foul artou to embrace!" (261-3) The Pardoner's moralistic statement condemns himself more than his audience, as he is the "dronke man" of the group; he is the lecherous drunk who "wil drinke licour of the vine/ And have a joly wenche in every town"

The Root of Evil Exposed in The Pardoner's Tale   "The root of all evil is money."   Because this phrase has been repeated so many times throughout history, one can fail to realize the truth in this timeless statement.   Whether applied to the corrupt clergy of Geoffrey Chaucer's time, selling indulgences, or the corrupt televangelists of today, auctioning off salvation to those who can afford it, this truth never seems to lose its validity.   In Chaucer's famous work The Canterbury Tales, he points out many inherent flaws of human nature, all of which still apply today.

In his description of other pilgrims, Chaucer points out how the lack of morality within the Church is echoed by the rest of society. Several pilgrims have non-religious reasons for going on the pilgrimage. The Wife of Bath, for instance, is looking for her sixth husband, hoping that “Som Cristen man shal wed me [her] anoon” (WBT 54). Many of the characters have little or no regard for others, but instead are focused only on their own desires. The Franklin is so gluttonous that “It snewed [snows] in his hous of mete and drinke, / Of alle daintees that men coude thinke” (GP 347-8). Chaucer even suggests that the Sergeant at Law, a prominent figure in society, “seemed bisier than he was” (GP 324). The corruption of the Church has, according to Chaucer, affected the way individuals act. If the Church is immoral it is not surprising that much of society mirrors the Church’s immoral actions. The Parson cleverly describes the effect of a lack of morality in the leaders of society by comparing the corruption of individuals to the rusting of metals: “if gold ruste, what shal iren do? / For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, / No wonder is a lewed man to ruste” (GP 502-4). Chaucer attacks not only the behaviour of the Church officials but also the immorality of the laypeople in Medieval society.

I believe that Chaucer didn’t like the society he was living in and was hoping it would change. He went through and gave his two cents on each of the characters and most of the time, they had something negative going for them. Even among the clergy, most of the people did very bad things. Chaucer pointed these things out in hopes to make people realize the way that they, as a society, were headed. There were a few good people among those traveling but the good didn’t weigh out all the bad apples in the bunch. Looking at the worksheet we had in class about the good, the bad, and the ugly, there are far more bad and uglies than there are good people.