Comparing Canterbury Tales 'And' The Pardoner's Tale

The Pardoner's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale, both are interesting story by Geoffrey Chaucer. Both tales utilizes irony to showcase problems present within the Medieval era and relate to today, such as rape and thievery to the lifelong lessons such as, Greed is the root of all evils and content featuring woman’s dominance, rights, and morality in general. In the Pardoner's Tale, Chaucer writes about a man who preaches to his audience for money. The pardoner speaks of three men that lost their lives due to greed. This leaves the reader with the knowledge that money is the root of all evil. I think the whole world is nothing compare to the pardoner's greed. The pardoner admits that his job is not to encourage people to become better from sin, but to make himself rich. According to the text “but let me briefly make my purpose plain, I preach for nothing by for greed of gain”. Also he even goes so far as to say that he would steal from the poorest page, the widow and even a starving child if it meant that he would gain from the process.
The Wife of Bath, on the other hand, a man becomes motivated to gain understanding of woman when his life is at stake.
In Jose Stone's, “A man's World” she said, “it would be nothing without a woman”. The moral and lesson of this story is to show people that sometimes we have to stop thinking about what we want and we need to think about what we need. This story teaches us that beauty isn't the most important aspects of a person. The knight realizing that it is more important to have someone that will be faithful, it made him value a person’s personality more than looks around and he gives his wife mastery over him. According to the text “I place myself in your wise governance”. A wife's possession of mastery is what is best for both men and woman, according to the Wife of
Bath. The Wife of Bath, who is a woman, believes in a very socially unacceptable lifestyle. On the outer side, she looks strange but inside she is nice. The pardoner, who is a man, open about conning his community. He on the inside, gives the impression that he is holy, but on the outer-side he is very rotten. The idea of today’s world demonstrates same as the greedy pardoners. The people of this period are consumed with the love of money for themselves more than welfare of those around them. It is interesting that the piece of literature written hundreds of years ago could portray life, as we know it today.