Examples Of Narcissism In The Pardoner's Tale

Both tales exhibit this idea from different perspectives to relfect the values of their context. The Pardoners Tale reflects a religious society where sin is punished

The Pardoner use deceit and lies to pray on the poor and innocent, his characterization represents the churches misuse of its vast power. Chaucer fortifies this idea when he describes the Pardoner as “And thus I preach against the very vice/I make my

The pardoner does whatever it takes to get money from is listeners, which includes lying, and tricking them into buying “relics” in bottles. He sells these bottles claiming them to be some kind of miracle cure, “Where there is a pox or scab or other sore/all animals that water at that well/are cured at once…And it’s a cure for jealousy as well…” (260). He is never going to see these people again so he says whatever it takes to get their money. “That tricks been worth a hundred marks a year/since I became a pardoner, never fear” (260), he tells the people whatever they want to hear in order for them to buy into his scheme, he has no real care for the people or his job. He refers to his life as a game, because he travels to

In the story, “The Pardoner’s Tales”, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the character the Pardoner in descriptive way. He describe the Pardoner’s corruption teaching and the way the Pardoner act in the tale. The religious that the Pardoner teaching is corrupted and very selfish, greediness, and gluttony. This thing are all opposite to what the real church religious is teaching. In the story, he tricks the people to buy his fake relics and other things by using the church’s believe. The Pardoner act and his teaching are all corrupted because of the church. It shows the side of greediness, gluttony and selfishness which highly reflect into himself and his believe.

The Pardoner’s tale has an important theme, “Radix malorum est cupiditas,” which translates to “Greed is the root of all evil.” However, the Pardoner does not practice what he preaches. His vocation, which involves selling false pardons and relics for a profit, is a contradiction to his theme. “And thus I preach against the very vice/ I make my living out of – avarice” (243). The Pardoner continues with his tale and condemns gluttony, drinking, gambling, and swearing, but then declares that he is guilty of each one. It is evident that the Pardoner is a hypocrite and that he has no intention of changing.

Chaucer at the beginning of the confession creates a illusion of the pardoner being smart and witty however as the tale and confession continues Chaucer starts to undermine his intelligence this is done by repetition suggesting that the Pardoner actually only has limited knowledge. Nevertheless, The Pardoner is a good public speaker so people would probably not have noticed it as he is very good at revolving his words on the topic he wants which will favour him. The Pardoner makes references to the bible through his prologue and the tale making people feel like they have sinned and uses “Saint John” for reference most of the time suggesting that he does not know the other preaches well enough or he does not know them at all. This shows that the Pardoner know “Saint John” preach well and will use it to make money which is his sole purpose “as long as I can preach and get their silver for things I teach” this implies that the pardoner is not preaching for the better meant of others by for “silver” which does not make him very moral. The fact that he preaches for “silver” suggests that he is greedy and yet is preaching how it’s sinful. The Pardoner is a character who is fully conscious of his immorality but preaches other of their sin and how he can redeem them making him a hypocrite. Chaucer illustrates irony by the Pardoners hypocritical nature “ I

There are many examples of irony in “The Pardoner’s Tale”. There are three different kinds of irony. The different ironies are verbal, dramatic, and situational irony. Not only does “The Pardoner’s Tale” give us examples of irony, but blasphemy is also present in the story.

The old man is the guide to spiritual and physical death, as is easily seen by the deaths of the three rioters. Thus, the old man looks of death: "Lo how I vanysshe, flessh, and blood, and skyn!" (Line 732). On the other hand, the Pardoner's profession is to absolve sinners and steer them towards life; he guides people to spiritual and even physical life! Therefore, he personifies all that is pure and innocent, such as a youthful and innocent boy. Both, with this physical aid, do good jobs of preaching to people to get their desired results.

The Pardoner was one of the classman who made people feel very unwelcome when he comes to town. In the text, it stated that. “…As towns emerged, new social classes-such as merchants and artisans-disrupted the established social patterns of medieval society.” That quote explains The Pardoner’s characters in this nonfiction text.

In the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer gave the readers different characterizations of the many pilgrims that joined him as they went from London to Canterbury in honor of St. Thomas á Becket. As he went on about each of the pilgrims, one in particular was more evil compared to them all. The Pardoner came across as the most intriguing one who went on the pilgrimage. He was a man of great greed and the readers wanted to know why he was at the hindmost order of the pilgrimage. If he was supposed to be of great nature and a man people could come to when they needed to seek out Christ, then he should not have been at the end of the pilgrimage order. A Pardoner is someone who goes about the township or countryside to sell pardons.

Throughout “The Pardoner’s Tale”, the main character teaches about greed, gambling, desecration, and drinking, but in the beginning he admits to committing these sins himself. One of the portrayals of hypocrisy, in the

Does the way the story describes the Pardoner makes it seem as if he is a “wholly vicious” man? I believe it does, from the start you can easily notice he is a very selfish person, yet he is supposed to be a pastor and someone who tries to benefit the people of the church. Instead of fulfilling the role God has put him in he would rather preach for his own benefits and bring sin upon the church. In “The Pardoner’s Prologue,” the story begins by explaining that the Pardoner is a man who preaches and tries to sell his community salvation.

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 Pardoner’s Tale” suggests a profile of the Pardoner as a moral man, a man of God. The narrator is viewed as a wise, gentle, and truthful man who wants to share his story in a respectful tone. His story reveals his message, which is that greed leads to destruction and the corruption of all things good. The Pardoner

The Pardoner is another church class member that is described by Chaucer. Except, Chaucer has some strong feelings about this particular man. The pardoner sells pardons for sins, and also travels with the summoner while simultaneously singing a duet with him. This man seemed to be normal, until Chaucer describes this man as