The Chaucer 's The Pardoner 's Tale

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.

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.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous medieval classic, The Canterbury Tales, offers its readers a vast array of characters. This God’s plenty features numerous unique and challenging individuals, but there is one specifically who stands out as particularly interesting. The immoral Pardoner, who, in a sense, sells away his soul for the sake of his own avarice, puzzles many modern readers with his strange logic. Already having laid his considerable guilt upon the table, this corrupted agent of the Church attempts to pawn off his counterfeit relics for a generous price. His actions are slightly troubling and mysterious, but his shameless misdeed is easily explainable if a reader chooses to interpret the man as a symbol rather than a fully formed human

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.

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During the Medieval Ages indulgences sold as a way of salvation. These indulgences, sold by the Catholic Church erased one's sins. The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer demonstrates the religious way of life of commoners in order to show how the Catholic church was in the Medieval Ages.

The Pardoner has several different sins that describes him in the story. One of the sins that compares him is that, he was a sloth; extort the poor people for money and merchandise. Like for example...” Some poor up-country parson to astound, in one short day, in money down, he drew up more than the parson in a mouth or two”. Prime example of why The Pardoner is consider not holy the way Chaucer explains in the text. The pardoner doesn’t have to work that much to get what he wants.

The pardons that the Pardoner was to sell were pieces of paper that the bishop's signature on them, permitting the conveyer to pardon for their sins. As the readers kept reading the prologue of the Pardoner, they learned that he did not necessarily care about do his job. The readers learned his character when he told them that greed is the root of all evil. He only cared to make a mockery of everyone else for his selfish needs. The Pardoner wanted to cash in on religion in any way he can, and he did that by selling palpable, substantial objects. His greed controlled his life and took over the wellbeing he once had in him. His greedy ways only were going to hurt him, but he sold any relic he could for profit. Whether it were slips of paper that promise forgiveness of pardons or animal bones that people can twine around their necklines as charms against the evil spirit. The greed the Pardoner had in him played a significant role when it came to the tale he told while traveling to

While in complete honesty to the other travelers, the Pardoner confesses that he preaches “for nothing but for greed of gain” and that he uses “the same old text” to “preach against the very vice that (he) makes (his) living out of - avarice.” The greed of the Pardoner is so extreme that he claims that he would scam and steal money from the “poorest village widow” with “a string of starving children.” The Pardoner informs the other pilgrims that he uses the same tale every time, in an attempt to deceive his audience into paying him money and supplying him with a living. He uses the story to preach that greed is the root of all evil, so his listeners should donate their money to him. Although the Pardoner pretends to be a man of God and to offer forgiveness of sins and salvation, but he is just greedy himself, and wants money, which is the epitome of hypocrisy and

“The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” differ in many ways with their themes. The Pardoner’s Tale focuses on greed while The Wife of Bath’s Tale is focused on women’s dominance. The Pardoner’s Tale relates the perils of guilt, while the Wife of Bath’s tale conveys the theme of power,

The Pardoner is just a big liar and he only wants money he is greedy for nothing but money the story makes it believable that the Pardoner is a cheap man he preaches sermons about evil and greed and then gets men and women to to donate to the clergy and leaves the clergy with his pockets full of money. The Pardoner is somewhat similar to to a bum that does nothing but begs it's just that the Pardoner doesn't beg he just cons people out of their money with his lies the Pardoner tells the people what they want to hear so he he can get their

Through travels on the countryside, the hills are filled with the Pardoner’s sweet “honey tongue” (Chaucer 141, line 732) as he rides to sell church pardons for forgiveness, or so it seems. A man of the church should have a holy mission to serve his lord and spread the prosperity of the church. The Pardoner, on the other hand, uses his title and ability to achieve devious deeds. No matter how many times he claims to have acted morally just, this man always has an ulterior motive to quench his greed. A man such as the Pardoner has drifted so far away from the path of being noble.

Long ago, a man named Geoffrey Chaucer put together a list of tales he heard from his travelers on his way to Canterbury, to visit the grave of Thomas O’Beckett. There was one tale that was told by a Pardoner, about the sins of greed. Which was ironic in itself, because Pardoners sold “pardons” (or forgiveness) for peoples sins. And that’s how the church built all those great churches, through greed. However the tale is not about the church, it is about greed.

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"

“That trick’s been worth a hundred marks a year/ Since I became a Pardoner, never fear…And tell a hundred lying mockeries more”(242). The epilogue of “The Pardoner’s Tale” provides a final view of the teller, who is not concerned with truth or morality. Is there any good at all in the Pardoner? Even though the Pardoner provides his services because of his greed, he knows intuitively that all those around him require spiritual and moral guidance. He is able to turn the villagers he dupes away from their greedy ways by telling them a story of death and destruction.