Pardoner's Falcon: An Analysis Of Situational Irony

During the Middle Ages, The Canterbury Tales was the first major English literary work of Geoffrey Chaucer. One of Chaucer’s classic tales, “The Pardoner’s Tale,” establishes a concrete image of the Pardoner’s greed. Chaucer uses “The Pardoner’s Tale” to expose that “greed is the root of all evil” through verbal, situational and dramatic irony.

The Pardoner’s tale is a reflection of his belief that greed and lust are the roots of all evil. He describes a scene in which three men seek a someone named Death who killed their friend. They find an old man who tells him Death waits under a tree; they find the tree which has gold treasure that they want to steal. They send the youngest boy of the group to find snacks and drinks for the night which is when the greed and lust kick in. The two who are still at the tree plan to kill the boy when he comes back so they can divide the wealth between two of them rather than three. Meanwhile, the boy buys poison which he puts in the wine for the others; he wants to take all the money for himself. Both of the plans work out; that is, the two men kill the boy, then drink the wine and suffocate from the poison. Because of their greed, not only do they not take the money home, but they all find “Death” under the tree. Similar to the Pardoner, the Reeve tells a tale that preaches against the seriousness of greed. The Reeve was mad at the Miller because he told a tale that made him seem like incompetent woodworker. As he begins, he describes the miller as cheater and a crook who steals from a local college. In his tale he explains that one day the manciple does not come to gather grain because he was sick, so the crooked miller, similar to the greedy friends in The Pardoners Tale, steals grain

I want to analyze the short story of Kate Chopin. Kate Chopin born on February 8th, 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. And she died on August 22th, 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. She was a U.S. author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She wrote many short stories such as The Story of an Hour, The Storm, Desiree’s Baby, and A Pair of Silk Stockings. I choose The Story of An Hour because it is very interesting story. The Story of An Hour published on December 6th, 1894.

“Birds bring beauty into the world,” Mrs, Bundy tells a distraught Melanie Daniels. But do they? In the film,”The Birds,” directed by Albert Hitchcock, Melanie Daniels chase's lawyer Mitch Brenner to the small town of Bodega Bay, gifting him a pair of lovebirds for his sister. Melanie however, gets caught up in the rampant bird problem that plagues the town when she arrives. Hitchcock creates suspense in the movie by using the element of dramatic irony, in order to instill a sense of helplessness into the audience as they watch disaster unfold before the characters of the picture.

In The Canterbury Tales: Pardoner’s Tale, three men who have excessive drinking and gambling issues have decided to seek revenge on Death, the killer of their mutual friend. This, in turn, leads the three men to a tree where they find gold instead of Death, and because of the gold the three men kill each other in efforts to keep it for themselves. In this work, monetary greed is a major theme and is the social issue of the tale. The tale also covers the consequences that greed can have on an individual's life. In the Pardoner’s Tale, greed is shown through how the friends cared so much about the gold they found, they not only forgot their true goal of killing Death, they in turn killed each other trying to selfishly keep the gold. The issue of greed is at the forefront of numerous modern day issues. Greed influences the decisions of today’s society and causes one to change the way they may have normally thought or acted. In “Canterbury Tales”, Geoffrey Chaucer’s depiction of greed is extremely relevant to the motive of many actions in modern time, and through his writing can show that greed is an issue that modern society has varied on only a small bit because in the end, humans have not tried to change the culture of greed.

"The Pardoners Tale" is a very interesting story that contains personification involving death and includes irony as the story plays out. It is a story that makes you want to read until the end just to see how it plays out and the way irony becomes used. While you read the story you can notice irony very easily and with death being the main key to the story, it is not hard to miss. Geoffrey Chaucer makes frequent use of personification and irony in his popular story "The Pardoners Tale."

For my fifth literary work I chose the short story, The Pardoner’s Tale, which was written by Geoffrey Chaucer. One of the major themes in this short story is greed and how the characters display this trait. I chose to use this picture in particular since it shows Mr. Krabs (a character from the famous kid’s T.V. show, Spongebob Squarepants) and his immense greed for money. This is similar to The Pardoner’s Tale because the three rioters show signs of being greedy when they all see the gold underneath the tree. The three men vow to die for each other, but yet when they all see how much gold there really, is they get greedy and want to kill each other so they can have more gold for themselves.

Throughout “The Pardoner’s Tale,” the literary elements verbal irony and situational irony reveal the theme that greed is the root of all evil. First, one rioter tells his friend, “Trust me… you needn’t doubt my word. I won't betray you, I’ll be true” (Chaucer 130). The rioter’s use of verbal irony helps to reveal the theme by showing how greed can cause someone to do things they would not normally do. The rioter's use of irony means the opposite of what it states; it is a warning to not trust the rioter.

There is a mystical character in both stories that is responsible for guiding the main characters to their “opportunity.” In “The Pardoner’s Tale” an old man, a sort of emissary of Death, tells the three friends where to find Death—which leads them to the gold. The man knows that when the friends find the gold they will kill each other out of greed. ...

An exemplum is a narrative that illustrates or supports a moral point much like what was often given in a sermon in the medieval times. In the story “The Pardoners Tale”, the narration the pardoner tells, includes an underlying message which in this case is that greed is the cause of the ruin of society and also the horrible demise of many. The role of a pardoner in Chaucer’s time was to collect money for gracious Christian purposes and to compensate contributors with “absolution” of their sins. In this case this fact is not entirely true coming from this specific pardoner as he admits to keeping much of this money to himself instead of giving it back up to the church. In the story he states, “I preach for nothing but for greed of gain.

It was three in the morning, light beats of cool rain hitting the windows, casting strange shadows onto the walls. Audrey was sleeping peacefully beside her, lips parted and legs tucked close, the heat from her body somehow warming Desiree’s insides. She looked at the other with a soft gaze and a fond smile on her face, heart melting at the sight. Audrey’s face slept so adorably, so soft and loose, sleep allowing her to become vulnerable and almost young again. It was an indulgence, to view Audrey as young and so care free in her sleep. To imagine their lives as easy as they wanted, as successful as they wished. Desiree longed to keep her like that, keep her away from trouble and danger, love care for her deeply enough to keep her safe

All throughout history, people often know they cannot or should not have certain things, but they seek them anyway. Whether in Greek mythology with Pandora’s box or in the Bible with Eve and the forbidden fruit, this idea is certainly not new. This theme is especially prevalent in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, in which Chaucer uses irony to illustrate how people are drawn to certain things, even when they know that these things are not beneficial to them. The pardoner, a man of the Church, clearly knows and regularly preaches about the evils of money, but he desperately searches for it.

Throughout “The Story of an Hour” many different variations of happiness as well as sadness take place. Kate Chopin, the author, uses many different examples of irony in this story to help explain a greater cause and effect towards the theme of the story. Kate Chopin and her excessive use of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony throughout her stories help to depict different events that occur in search of a deeper meaning.

The thought of swimming pools filled with money may fill some people with complete contentment. The world is filled with people who believe this is ok and commonly find ways that they may reach their goal. However, to groups this is considered a sinful injustice. Even in literature there are many times that the greediest of people are considered the antagonist. The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffery Chaucer, contains a short story known as “The Pardoner’s Tale” that addresses the issue of greed using irony to create an entertaining story.

The Cask of the Amontillado uses irony throughout the story by dialogical interactions between Montresor and Fortunato. In the event of Carnivale, Monstresor detects Fortuno on the street, and offers Fortunato to go see the wine in the catacombs. Fortunato insists to go see the catacombs of wine at once, but Montresor plays worried about Fortunato’s cough and alters his decision about the catacombs and advises him not to go. “ Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough-” ( 61). This dialogical interaction of verbal irony impacts the story because it shifts the climax of the story to the falling action. Montresor slowly shifts the climax of the story to the falling action, because he slowly captivates