One More Drop of Temptation: The Pardoner's Tale

The Usage of Literary Devices in The Pardoner’s Tale Greed is the root of all evil and everyone should stay away from it as told in The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. In this tale, the Pardoner preaches a tale of three drunks; these drunks decide to fight Death. This leads them to an old man, who tells them to leave him alone. The drunks find gold coins under a tree and decide to take the gold; but due to greed, they all perish due to killing each other. The Pardoner then goes on to show how greed is the root of all evil and should be avoided at all costs.

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.

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.

Chaucer used religion to shape the theme of the middle ages during his time. In the pardoners tale Chaucer shows the corruptibility of a group of people based on their avarice. Chaucer illustrates the theme by revealing the corruptions that the people had. These people ate and drank beyond their might which is one of the deadly sins. In the story a group of drunken people attempt to find death and kill death to avenge the death of servants brother, instead they found treasures and riches. The irony behind this situation is that everyone turns against one another to have the riches for themselves.

Greed greed is in the air, greed greed is everywhere. Geoffrey Chaucer’s story The Canterbury Tales begins with a prologue explaining the main points of the stories that follow the prologue. The two Stories “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of bath’s Tale” are two of the stories in The Canterbury Tales. The two stories have a main focus of explaining morals in a hiddin way. Both stories express more than one moral and it gives the reader a sense of what chaucer is trying to express. “The Pardoners’s Tale” Is a better story because of its relatible moral that focuses on greed, and its multiple uses of figurative language and irony.

haucer's “The Pardoner’s Tale “ reflects the historical significance of the Middle Ages. Relics were first made around the beginning of the Middle Ages, allowing “The Pardoner’s Tale” to be a considerable illustration of the early Middle Ages (Boese). By using relics (parts of the deceased, or their belongings kept in remembrance), along with greed (selfish desire of something); during the Middle Ages relics were very popular, and greed is always significant throughout life. Both of these points are very credible representing the Middle Ages.

Literary Analysis - “Pardoner's Tale” The “Pardoner's Tale” in “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer is about 3 drunks who go hunting after a person named Death. But they instead find death differently than what they intended. The 3 drunks show greed and corruption while Chaucer shows the stereotype of drunks being aggressive and not understanding. This essay will go over the theme of greed and corruption that Chaucer shows in the “Pardoner's Tale” along with the stereotypes of the drunks.

Literary Elements in the Pardoners Tale In the poem “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pardoner tells a tale of three men who go out on a life-changing adventure in order to find and take out a mass killer, Death. Throughout this quest that the gents go out on, Chaucer expresses multiple different literary devices that show great importance and development: symbolism, conflict, characterization, setting, and irony. Symbolism is by the far the most important literary device in the Pardoner’s tale, told in “The Canterbury Tales.” Death is the main source of symbolism in the tale.

In other words, a relic’s power rested mostly on the ability of its patrons, presumably the Pope and lords that protect the Pardoner, who is also attempting to copy these authorities to make himself appear influential. Furthermore, the Pardoner creates prestige for his relics the same way that relic custodians have. Robyn Malo endorses this, “his occupation similarly requires him to control his relics and dictate the conditions of access to them… Though his relics are fake, his character still serves to satirize relic custodians, who similarly guarded and regulated contact with their[…]objects” (84). The Pardoner accordingly expects the Host to comply the pardons and relics and submit to the powers that be that govern the Host and every person on the pilgrimage.

In the Pardoner’s Tale the pardoner condemns people who drink and says, “Witness the Bible, which is most express/That lust is bred of wine and drunkenness”

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

Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Tale," a relatively straightforward satirical and anti-capitalist view of the church, contrasts motifs of sin with the salvational properties of religion to draw out the complex self-loathing of the emasculated Pardoner. In particular, Chaucer concentrates on the Pardoner's references to the evils of alcohol, gambling, blasphemy, and money, which aim not only to condemn his listeners and unbuckle their purses, but to elicit their wrath and expose his eunuchism.

In his description of other pilgrims, Chaucer points out how the lack of morality within the Church is echoed by the rest of society. Several pilgrims have non-religious reasons for going on the pilgrimage. The Wife of Bath, for instance, is looking for her sixth husband, hoping that “Som Cristen man shal wed me [her] anoon” (WBT 54). Many of the characters have little or no regard for others, but instead are focused only on their own desires. The Franklin is so gluttonous that “It snewed [snows] in his hous of mete and drinke, / Of alle daintees that men coude thinke” (GP 347-8). Chaucer even suggests that the Sergeant at Law, a prominent figure in society, “seemed bisier than he was” (GP 324). The corruption of the Church has, according to Chaucer, affected the way individuals act. If the Church is immoral it is not surprising that much of society mirrors the Church’s immoral actions. The Parson cleverly describes the effect of a lack of morality in the leaders of society by comparing the corruption of individuals to the rusting of metals: “if gold ruste, what shal iren do? / For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, / No wonder is a lewed man to ruste” (GP 502-4). Chaucer attacks not only the behaviour of the Church officials but also the immorality of the laypeople in Medieval society.

Then the physician offers to his tale of the tragic woe of a father and daughter the story that upsets the host so much that he requests a merry tale from the pardoner. The pardoner tells a tale to the proves that, even though he is not a moral man, he can tell a moral tale. At the end of the tale, the Pardoner invites the pilgrims to buy

During the medieval times corruption in the Catholic Church was prevalent. As corruption was prevalent during Chaucer’s time so was a Pardoner’s practice of selling indulgences, becoming one of deception and greed. Similar to the upper class focusing their time on becoming the richest and most powerful. In many of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer would use satire to criticize different social classes. For example, the middle class, those people who worked for their possessions. He satirizes religious hypocrisy in such tales as the Pardoner, in which a middle class man, showing the corruption of the Pardoner’s job. Through his description of the Pardoner as being a man who is disitful, greedy, and hypocritical, Chaucer uses