The Pardoner's Tale By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories by a group of pilgrims who are heading to Canterbury Cathedral. In this book, the pardoner and the reeve show antipodal characters in many ways. The pardoner is beautiful blonde hair man who is being loved by everyone. However he is very corrupted and smart and sells fake religious stuff to people saying very good compliment. On the other hand, the reeve is very serious and honest business man. He is very smart enough to know what criminals think and do. The pardoner story-tells a great example (or tale?) of seven deadly sins and reeve’s story is mocking of the miller. These very different characteristic men tell story telling that human beings are always punished for

The Pardoner is a strong willed man, which would be seen as a positive thing in a warrior. The Pardoner does not give up when trying to sell his services, which is shown when the story reads "Now, good men, God forgive you your trespasses and guard you from the sin of avarice. My holy pardon will cure you all, provided that you offer nobles and other sterling coin, or else silver rings, brooches, spoons” (Chaucer). The Pardoner even tries to sell his goods, which he had earlier said were fake, when he proclaims that he carries relics blessed by the pope for all who need pardoning or blessing (Chaucer). The Pardoner is also a very smart man, he lures people into his trap by telling them to get rid of their earthly goods and alleviate themselves from the guilt of their sins.

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.

The author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the book “ The Pardoner’s Tale” and also other story. I chose to write about the pardoner’s tale because its about the danger of money and being greedy in the old days. In the medieval time, people tell story about the Lord and Knight and pilgrimage was very important in the midieveal time. Pardoner went on the pilgrimage and preaches about the lord and the 7 deadliest sin which is pride, avarice (greed), lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth to those poor people because they don’t have the knowledge about what he is preaching or if its true. He also preaches for money and sell forgiveness for money and he is the one who being greedy to get money and used those unknowledge people’s money.

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).

is suggested, by Chaucer, that he might have an ongoing affair with the Summoner. The

The fundamental argument in "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Franklin's Tale," is around themes of honesty, moral rectitude, and deceit. The stories are different in narrative and morality, but they all center on examining human virtues and vices, which leads to a lengthy discussion about living ethically and fairness. As we have seen in our readings and lessons, it is crucial to investigate the dynamic interaction of these themes while developing an opinion on these matters. The story that Chaucer tells in "The Pardoner's Tale" is full of hypocrisy and irony. The ecclesiastical figure known as the Pardoner shamelessly confesses to being corrupt and greedy, taking advantage of the ignorant with indulgences and artifacts that he considers vain.

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.

Throughout “The Pardoner’s Tale”, the main character teaches about greed, gambling, desecration, and drinking, but in the beginning he admits to committing these sins himself. One of the portrayals of hypocrisy, in the

The Pardoner is the epitome and, as a matter of fact, the spitting image of a hypocrite. As he was very good at doing what he did, preaching to be exact, but in the prologue of The Canterbury Tales he tells the pilgrims that he only preaches to win money. He scolds people for their sins just to they will be more inclines to buy the church pardons that he is selling. These church pardons were embellished for the effectiveness of their indulgences and were claimed to guarantee deliverance not only from purgatory, but from hell as well. The Pardoner quite

In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales he reveals an underlying flaw in society. Chaucer portrays the Pardoner as hypocritical in order to get his message across to readers. The Pardoner is shown to be the exact definition of a hypocrite by preaching to others to lead a spiritual life, while not living by those preaching's himself. In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer reveals hypocritical qualities in the Pardoner through vivid characterization, tone, and morality.

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 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.