The Pardoner In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a huge story written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale consists of many small prologues and tales including “The Pardoner’s Prologue” and “The Pardoner’s Tale.” The Pardoner is the biggest scum throughout the tales. In the prologue, The Pardoner’s main concept is “Radix malorum est cupiditas (The love of money is the root of all evil)”(Chaucer 142). However, the Pardoner disregards his own concept and is a lying disobedient hypocrite. Thus, the Pardoner should be judged by his personality not his profession.
Specifically, The Pardoner is greedy selfish human being. In “The Pardoner’s Prologue” Pardoner describes himself in a very brief manner. While describing himself the Pardoner specifies, “And thus I preach against the