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However, the similarities are more prominent than the differences. There are several themes both passages have in common. Death is personified in both of the stories. In “The Pardoner’s Tale”, death is personified as the gold that the

When the Pardoner begins his tale the first thing that the pardoner condemns is vengeance and drunkenness. At the beginning of the story in a tavern three drunk friends learn that one of their closes friends has died; when they learn that “Death” was the responsible for his dismissal, the three fiends swear that they will avenge their late friend by

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

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.

Tolstoy talks about a sort of scholarly emergency that he endured late in his life, and his recuperation from it. In spite of the fact that Tolstoy appreciated what might conventionally be viewed as a successful and agreeable life, he started feeling tormented by worries of unimportance. Specifically, he reports starting to question why he should think about things that he once thought about, or why he should do the things that he would choose to do. At last, he discovered it inconceivably hard to give answers to these inquiries. The outcome, he reports, is feeling as though his life were a doltish, pointless trap played someone has bestowed upon him. He felt as though every individual task he attempted, and also his life in its totality, were without importance.

When the three friends set out to avenge their friend they find gold, and it blinds them. It makes them forget about their friend and the avenging they only care for the wealth and power this gold can give them. Not only does the gold set them off track, it causes their death, in fact, greed is what causes their death. Although the gold was a lot and it was plenty enough for each when they divide it, their greed forced them to want more. Their desire for wealth forced to want to kill each other. In the end they all end up dead, victims of their greed. Chaucer shows the reader that mans greed and desire for power and wealth will have disastrous consequences, in this case death. The irony in the pardoners tale is that the men set out to find Death and they indeed find it, but have they found Death, the person. Although he is of unclear identity, the old man can be interpreted as Death, or his form on earth. A lot of mystery and unanswered questions concern the old man, however, from the text the reader can hint that he is some form of Death. The old man is the one who directed the men right to the gold and most likely knew what the men’s fait was. In general, the message Chaucer is trying to convey through his story is that greed is a sin, and it causes horrible

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.

Throughout the story, The pardoner's Tale, Chaucer writes of topics often still written about today. He mentions greed, violence, and death. The characters he creates are especially memorable and can be compared to characters in modern literature which makes it easier to understand. Chaucer writes about a group of quarreling rioters who’s lack of intelligence helps add some comedy to the story. He also adds in a wise, yet “very poor old man”(174) who indirectly hints at what would help them find “a privy thief… called Death”(173) that they seek. Chaucer's memorable rhetoric is capped off when the men find greed, in the form of a large sum of gold, which causes them to conspire and kill each other. In the end they found the Death they were looking for. This clever storytelling makes the plot particularly clear and straightforward compared to The Wife of Bath’s drawn out vagueness. Chaucer's easily relatable characters and cleaver but understandable plot make The Pardoner's Tale much more

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.

Both of these stories have a greed with evil intentions in mind. In “Federigo's Falcon” Monna Giovanna shows greed saying “I'm imploring you to give me this falcon.”(PAGE NUMBER)She says this to Frederigo after he invited her into his home. Knowing the falcon is his last true possession after he lost everything trying to win her. She now wants to take it from him. In “The Pardoner's Tale” the three rioters show enormous amounts of greed. One of them saying to the other “ As you attack, i’ll up my dagger through his back.”(PAGE NUMBER) This was when one of the three rioters left so the

During “The Canterbury Tales,” there are many similarities. One being the common use of one of the “7 Deadly Sins.” “The Pardoner’s Tale” was focused around the sin, Greed. Greed is intense and selfish desire for something, which ended with the three drunks death. The “Wife of Bath’s Tale” started around the sin, Lust. Lust is very strong sexual desire, which almost left the knight beheaded if not for the queen. Another thing they have in common is how they present their moral message. “The Pardoner’s Tale” presents us with a tale about how “greed is the root of all evil.” “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” tells us that if you can give a women what she really desires, sovereignty, then she will give in return her loyalty. Last but not least, both their stories reflect their character in some way. Listen, “The Pardoner’s Tale” basically says your greed will only end in death. Yet, he constantly tricks the people he is supposed to pardon into giving him their money. With the Wife of Bath, her tale shows us the

The irony of the Pardoner is based on his hypocritical actions. The fact that he does not care about the souls of those he has tricked, says a lot about his character. Near the end of his tale, the friends begin to reveal their true personality. All three of them turn on each other trying to steal the treasure for themselves. All of the trust, which they had promised, was a lie and no loyalty remained. The supposed faithful “friends” display their true cruelty and expose their hypocrisy in relation to the Pardoner's character.

Another factor that could possibly have helped to cause the Pardoner’s epiphany is the pilgrimage, he feels the need to repent for all his hypocrisy and scams so his soul doesn’t “go a-blackberrying”(pg 511, ll 78) when he dies. The Pardoner’s epiphany doesn’t change the course or the tone of the tale in itself, because he continues to act the way he usually does in regards to his relics and pardons. However, at the end of the tale the way he acts towards the travelers is just a cover of how he is truly feeling.

“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

One specific tale, in The Canterbury Tales, centers entirely around greed and how it can lead to an eventual downfall. The Pardoner’s Tale tells how a group of three men go looking for “Death” because he has been killing all their friends. An old man warns them to stop, but they do not listen, so he tells the group of men where they can find death. When the men reach where the old man told them to go, they find multiple bushels of gold. A plan is made amongst them for one of them to go into town and get wine and bread and then late into the night they would all bring the gold into town so nobody would see them. While one man went into town to get the wine and food, the other two men plotted against him. They decided to