Preaches 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 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.

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.

The Pardoner is greedier than Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street. The Pardoner is ironic when he tells a story of how greed got people killed, yet pockets the money he makes from selling fake religious relics. The Pardoner says “Radix malorum est cupiditas” which means greed is the root of all evil, making him hypocritical.

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.

Next, In The Pardoner’s Tale Greed is shown with money as three rioters find money and plan to kill one another. The three rioters get told by a man that he left death under a tree and they well find him waiting there they run off to the tree and find a pile of golden florins which is money. As the third rioter left the other two rioters planned to kill him when he gets back to get more money each. The author writes, “Now look; when he comes back, get up in fun to have a wrestle; then as you attack I’ll up and put a dagger through his back” (Chaucer lines 225-227). As the third rioter runs back to down he is planning to kill them both. He knows that he can buy poison and put it in two out of the three drinks so he good have all the money to

The pardoner is a man who preaches and pardons of a person's sins “for greed of gain”, and he openly admits his “covetousness” in “The Pardoner's Tale”(Lines: 2 & 11). This man is a hypocrite and he just does not care. In the “Prologue Tale” the narrator says, “by his flatteries and prevarication” he is able to convince and con people for his own greed and satisfaction(Line:175). Also, in “The Pardoner’s Tale” he is only about one thing and that is to assemble money. He will go as low as to take money from “the poorest lad or the poorest village widow, though she had a string of starving children, all agape” just to fill his pockets (Line:27-29).

The world is full of hypocrites and in the story “The Pardoner’s Tale”, Chaucer writes about a man who is living a life of sin. The Pardoner’s tale is an epologia of a pardoner who has the power from the church to forgive others for their sins but makes a living out of lying and tricking his audience. Throughout the Pardoner’s Tale he preaches about greed, drinking, blasphemy, and gambling but in the Pardoner’s Prologue he admits to committing these sins himself. The pardoner is really just a 14th century con artist who makes a living by his own hypocrisy.

“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

Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale," a relatively straightforward satirical and anti-capitalist view of the church, contrasts motifs of sin with the salvational properties of religion to draw out the complex self-loathing of the emasculated Pardoner. In particular, Chaucer concentrates on the Pardoner's references to the evils of alcohol, gambling, blasphemy, and money, which aim not only to condemn his listeners and unbuckle their purses, but to elicit their wrath and expose his eunuchism.

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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.

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The Pardoner’s tale clearly exemplifies the motif of moral behavior ‎as one of the seven deadly sins, greed, is what drives the three men to kill each other. In the ‎Pardoner’s prologue it even states that “radix malorum est cupiditas”, meaning “the love of ‎money is the root of all evil”. The statement that money is the root of evil then becomes the moral ‎of the story and shows how greed led the men to do an immoral thing. However, even after the ‎tale ends one can still see that the motif of moral behavior is still a part in the tale because the ‎Pardoner tries to sell his relics. The pardoner knows that the relics are not real but his love for ‎money drives him to want to do anything he can, including tricking his fellow friends, to buying ‎relics. Therefore, an irony takes place because although the Pardoner warns that the love of ‎money is the root of all evil, he himself commits and immoral things due to his love of wealth.