The Pardoner's Story Of A Good Man

Out of litetray devices chaucer used three in Nuns priest ,the pardoner tale and the wife of bath tale display satirzing people of any for example chaucer use personification & allusion in the nun priest tale the ropster , fox have human like abulty in lines, stanza , “chanticleer reishes the fox flattery of his singing he beat his wings hith pride stands on his toes, stretches his neck closes his eyes and cows loudly” in the story of the wife of bath there are a lot of allusion like the old lady in lines stanza you may have the one of two things either you may have me old and ugly unitl die but turue & faithful or young and fair & take your chances on how foolishly i may behave” in the pardoner tale the old mad crate an allusion he was death

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.

“The Pardoner’s Tale”, included in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a story of greed, deception, and selfishness that destroys a friendship. The tale takes place in two different locations, one being the tavern, where the story begins and the other being under a tree, where the reader is introduced to the conflict. The main characters in “The Pardoner’s Tale” are the three rioters, who share a friendship, the young tavern-knave and the innkeeper, who try to warn the rioters, the old man, who the rioters come across on their journey, and Death. In the story the rioters come across a complication, Death has been taking lives, therefore they decide to search for Death and kill him.

Even though people have been dying since the start of life, we can never get use to the idea of leaving our loved ones behind. Therefore humans choose to disregard death and get pleasure from life, and consequently we tend to stray away from righteousness. Two works; Everyman by an unknown author, and The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer have been written to preach humans toward Christianity-the right way of living. These authors utilize plot to reveal the role of death in understanding life. This is achieve by drawing on the foolishness of mankind, their response to the inevitable death and the effect of death on protagonists which altogether helps the readers understand worldly treasures are temporary.

Pardoner had a dubious profession. He was paid by the Church to offer and sell

In other words, a relic’s power rested mostly on the ability of its patrons, presumably the Pope and lords that protect the Pardoner, who is also attempting to copy these authorities to make himself appear influential. Furthermore, the Pardoner creates prestige for his relics the same way that relic custodians have. Robyn Malo endorses this, “his occupation similarly requires him to control his relics and dictate the conditions of access to them… Though his relics are fake, his character still serves to satirize relic custodians, who similarly guarded and regulated contact with their[…]objects” (84). The Pardoner accordingly expects the Host to comply the pardons and relics and submit to the powers that be that govern the Host and every person on the pilgrimage.

The Pardoner’s Tale is a story very relatable to many Americans in this day and age. This story tells of greed, pride, and malice. A theme as old as time, “money is the root of all evil” speaks volumes in this poem. The Pardoner’s Tale highlights an old saying that many use in everyday conversation.

Plain and simple, the Pardoner is a self-centered, greedy human being whose motive is to take from the poor and personally benefit from their contributions. What the Pardoner does is travel from town to town giving pardons, which forgives people of their sins and allows them to enter the Kingdom of God. Though this seems like an honest trade, he adds a sickening twist to it. The Pardoner shares, “I preach for nothing but the greed of gain and use the same old text, as old as brass, and thus I preach against the very nice. I make my living out of avarice.”

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

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 Bubonic plague disseminated around Europe during times of social class comparisons which impacted many author’s writing styles. Geoffrey Chaucer in “The Pardoner’s Tale” makes greed a catalyst for Death while Giovanni Boccaccio in “Federigo’s Falcon” makes sacrifice a catalyst for love. Chaucer personifies Death implying that greed will kill everyone in the end as Boccaccio’s setting of Federigo’s farm represents poverty, and the sacrifice it took of him to display his devotion to Monna. The Pardoner is neglectful of the fact that “there is a privy thief, they call him death..who kills them all” (Chaucer 95).

Both the Pardoner and the Friar are portrayed as quick-thinking charlatans. Chaucer does seem to admire the Pardoner’s skill, and skilled he is, but his actions do not befit a man of the cloth. The Pardoner is spoken of as using bogus relics to con “poor up-country parsons” out of their hard-earned cash. These small hustles netted him “more in a day than the parson in a month or two”. When choosing his occupation, I’m sure the Pardoner did not see the light of the lord but rather, dollar signs. Chaucer goes on to say that yes, the pardoner did preach rather well and his stories were quite splendid, however that might be on account that he could “win money from the crowd”.

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

The Pardoner and Summoner appear together in “The Prologue.” They further illustrate an example of Chaucer’s awareness of a defiled Church. Chaucer provides humor to his description of the Summoner in that “he’d allow – just for a quart of wine - /Any good lad to keep a concubine” (Chaucer 20.) This means that a person who disobeys the Church without seeking repentance can easily bribe the Summoner, in that he will overlook the situation. Chaucer writes about the Pardoner that “by his flatteries and prevarication/ Made monkey of the priest and congregation” (Chaucer 22.) This is another direct insult to the Church at the time.

To add on to the corruption, earlier in the “General Prologue” the narrator mentioned how the Pardoner was adding to his irrelevent preaching of having relics. Such as the gobbet of Saint Peter, he goes as far as even saying he has a pillow case made of Our Lady’s veil. Indeed there were people who believed in such spiritual journeys who can be examples of the Pardoner cons, selling them holy relics and or promises of salvation which are frauds. This is more to add to the Pardoner’s deceptions, since his job was to get money from charitable enterprises to give back to those in need. “For in his trunk he had a pillowcase/ Which he asserted was Our Lady’s veil./ He said he had a gobbet of the sail/ Saint Peter had the time when he made bold/ To walk the waves…”(Chaucer 696-700). As shown the Pardoner was a skilled liar, not that the narrator believed him or many people did for that matter, but he was a compulsive liar running on greedy. One quality his tale talks about not having. After bringing attention to the inadequacies of the church workers, it is seemed that Chaucer continues to throw judgement to the Catholic Church through the tales of the characters.