The Pardoner's Story Of A Good Man

The Pardoner is a renaissance figure that wanders the lands in hopes of bringing forgiveness to those in need. This Pardoner is a bad pardoner among the other pardoners. The tale that he tells is a moral one that is suppose to bring about the desire from people to ask for forgiveness. Instead the Pardoner uses this tale as a way of contracting money from his fellow pilgrims. The Pardoner is a person that is suppose to practice what he preaches. What that person does affects those that look up to that person. The Pardoner must be able to tell of tales that bring about hope. The way in which that might happen is through example. If the pardoner is unable to produce a tale that convinces the audience of

When the pardoner is through with his tale, he does not forget to remind the congregation about making their offering to him, so that they may protect themselves from avarice and against sin. The pardoner shows no sign of sympathy or remorse towards his acts upon those whom he cheats. This is one of the many greedy tricks that the pardoner performs to fool and steal from the people.

According to the Geoffrey Chaucer’s “General Prologue” from the Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner seemed to be the least moral of the pilgrims, Breaking many of the vows he gives to the church. The Pardoner breaks the law of poverty throughout the poem, one example would be by accepting silver for pardons from purgatory instead of giving them through fasting or Hail Mary’s. Chaucer says “In one short day, in money down, he drew/More than the parsons in a month or two,” (723-724). The Pardoner also preached very well “And (well he could) win silver from the crowd./That’s why he sang so merrily loud.” (Chaucer 733-734). This suggests that he was preaching to bring in the people and the money the people gave to the church, and not preaching to honor

While others were not as taught as he might have been, the pardoner talked in Latin to hotshot his etymological capacity. His inability to try to do he said others should do made him a model of pietism and misdirection. The pardoner was such a bragger, to the point that he gloated of the transgressions that he had done. "I release my venom under the shade of sacredness, to appear to be heavenly and true"(page 343). The pardoner admitted to his astounding conduct and admitted to his indecency. His improper admission demonstrated that he was liable of stupidity: I lecture, as you have recently listened, and tell a hundred other falsehoods...my aim is to win cash, not in any way to cast out sins (page 343). All through his story, the pardoner makes himself to be an exemplary man, yet he doesn't take after even his own particular teachings. Indignation is found in him when the host makes a joke on him in the

This is how the pardoner is able to make money; he uses his sermons to convict people and convince them to buy forgiveness for their sins. The pardoner preaches his sermons around the phrase, “Radix malorum est cupiditas.” The Latin meaning of what the pardoner preaches is “The love of money is the root of all evil” this is based out of 1 Timothy 6:10 stated in The Holy Bible. He develops his sermons using this to convict people of their greed so they do not mind buying their indulgences from him. In “The Pardoners Prologue”, the pardoner states, “What! Do you think, as long as I can preach / And get silver for the things I teach / That I will live in poverty, from choice?” Rather than be poor and respectable and have moral values, the pardoner would rather be greedy and preach fallacy to become wealthy. His sermons are a main factor that enable him to accomplish this. In Richard Firth Green’s analysis of, “Jean Gobi’s Pardoners Tales” Green states an account of a pardoner caught preaching false sermons, “A corrupt pardoner is hauled up before his bishop because he has been reported to have been sowing errors… specifically to have been preaching heresies.” This can also be used to show how a pardoner is a universal character in those times. The pardoner in “The Canterbury Tales” is not the only one who uses his sermons to benefit himself. Although his sermons are a main part of feeding his greed, his relics are also a major

He comes out and admits that the only reason he preaches is to become a wealthy man, he doesn’t care about the people he preaches to but the money they produce, “And however guilty of that sin/Myself, with others I have the power to win/Them from it, I can bring them to repent; /But that is not my principle intent” (261). He cares not about helping people like a pardoner should just about his own welfare, and if he does happen to help somebody it was purely coincidental.

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"

“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

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.

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

A dishonest clergyman could easily prey on the insecurities of the population in order to profit from the sale of false relics. The Pardoner, similarly, is only “fixed on what [he stands] to win” (PP 75). Perhaps this suggests that the corrupted character has little else on his mind, wishing only to cheat the devout and turn a greedy profit; he thinks of nothing but of his personal gain. He “won’t do any labor with [his] hands,” but his greedy heart intends to live the life of the most well-to-do (PP 114). The Pardoner’s sermons, preaching the ills of avarice, condemn the sin of which he is guiltiest.

First of all, a main reason is how he took advantage of the villagers. The villagers giving their money to the Pardoner are seeking forgiveness, but he is just in it for the money. The Pardoner manipulated people into paying to see fake relics and openly boasted about the relics. He suggested that he had a kerchief of the Virgin Mary but really was a pillow case and a piece of sail he claimed was from St Peter's fishing boat. He also pockets the money

The selling of indulgences and relics were an important factor for religious Catholic leaders. At first these indulgences were a form of salvation and pardon for one's sins. But after they noticed it could be made into a financial gain, greed took over them . Pardoners were not doing their job with a good motive, but out of greed. They knew how ignorant the commoners were and they took advantage of them. The commoners believed in the Pardoner's word because he was from the church. The Pardoner's would sell these indulgences in an intelligent manner. He first spoke a sermon, then pulled out relics telling the commoners how they had pardoning power and guaranteed salvation.(Chaucer 34)

The Friar and the Pardoner are alike with the Monk and Nun, due to their presence in the clergy. While their fallacies and corruptions are not identical to that of the Monk and Nun, it is important to note that they are similar in the glaring ways. The Friar is duplicitous with the monetary dealings of his practice, and shuns those who he is supposed to help. The Pardoner shares the monetary duplicity of the Friar, however he takes money in troves, which is detrimental to the church (although how detrimental due to the fact that almost all of the money with the congregation was squandered on pursuits seen as sinful). Although the Friar is supposed to fully holy, he has many relationships with young women(possibly impregnating them), The Pardoner

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