In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ many characters go on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. On the way to Canterbury‚ each person on the journey tells a tale. Whoever tells the best story‚ gets rewarded a lavish free meal. The pilgrimage includes people from the nobility‚ clergy‚ and commoner class. For each class‚ Chaucer develops many different character types that were representative of the society of the time. With a broad spectrum of
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Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of stories told by fictional characters who are on a journey. “The Pardoner’s Tale” is told by a pardoner traveling with the group. He pretends to be a devout man intent on the salvation of others. However‚ he admits outright that he is an extremely greedy man and is only in it for wealth. In the story the pardoner tells‚ irony is heavily used. Verbal irony‚ situational irony‚ and dramatic irony are all used by Chaucer to enhance the message of the story
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The Pardoner was a fraud and immoral person who sold fake relics to people through persuasion. This is shown when Chaucer says‚ “For in his trunk he had a pillowcase/ Which he asserted was Our Lady’s veil” (714-715)‚ expressing the Pardoner’s immoral act of trying to give people fake objects by telling them it’s very holy or holds power. The Pardoner was a scammer who “by his flatteries and prevarication/ Made monkeys of the priest and congregation” (725-726). The Pardoner manipulated people
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money is a root of all evil‚ nevertheless Pardoner suggests buying indulgences which will forgive to sinners their sins. Now‚ good men‚ God forgive you your trespass And guard you from the sin of avarice. The real problem is that the Pardoner is a successful preacher‚ and his profit specifies to several people who really learn from his speeches and repent their sins. His Tale is an exact demonstration of a way which greed leads to evil. And the Pardoner is an excellent preacher
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pilgrimage may serve as a way of self-discovery and consequently a display of characters. Did Chaucer choose the pilgrimage as a plot for his poem with this though in mind? We cannot be sure. The heroes‚ chosen for discussion are: the Monk‚ the Pardoner and the Parson. Chaucer draws the air of his characters in a very clever
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His personality is really selfish and he speaks the “truth” during his tales. Since the Pardoner could read the Bible he would outsmart the society and the church while steer them to give him profit. “The Pardoner said that he preaches for greed and gain of profit”(Chaucer 1-2). One of the Pardoner’s tales that he preached was about how death manipulated three brothers to be greedy and end up murdering
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so happens to be the Pardoner. What is the Pardoner? The Pardoner is a man who has absolutely no principles what so ever. The Pardoner will also give them whatever it is that they could possibly want only after he takes care of all of his own personal wants for a drink. It never fails‚ The Pardoner will always give the same sermon. The sermon that he always gives would be mainly about greed being the root of all evils. Even though he always gives these sermons‚ the pardoner himself is a very greedy
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Consider the significance of death in the Pardoners tale. When Chaucer was writing the Canterbury Tales in the 14th century the Black Death had killed approximately one quarter to one third of the European population within 2 years; even without the plague the average persons’ life expectancy was 28 years. Literature at the time‚ even books my medics believed that God was the giver and taker of life‚ Therefore the relieving of sin by a priest in the 14th century is similar to the relieving of
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a story that includes many satirical points in it. Many of the characters in the story have characteristics which are ironic or objective to the characters role or profession. The characters that are the most satirically described are the members of the clergy. Chaucer did this purposely as he had a certain outlook towards the church. Some of the members are portrayed as fulfilling their roles as members of the clergy‚ others however‚ had either dubious
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Geoffrey Chaucer had separate attitudes towards Church and Christians. Chaucer seems to have respected Christians. In the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer introduces many characters that are devoted Christians in high and attractive terms. Some of these characters are the Knight‚ the Parson‚ the Clerk and even a little about the Plowman‚ “The Lord his God with whole heart he loved best” (Line 533). Chaucer describes all these devoted Christians at first‚ yet he describes some pilgrims
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