Regina Bua                                                                                 10/24/01                                                                                 P5 The Cantebury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer is a frame fabrication about a pilgrimage. It besides contains a Prologue . The Prologue introduces the pilgrims who will be attending the journey. On the journey each pilgrim tells a tale. The Pardoner, who is a pilgrim, tells a tale about greed and evil. His tale is at one eon related to his personality. In the Prologue Chaucer describes the Pardoner as a truly feminine looking man by calling him a geld or mare. He does non only dumbfound down the Pardoner physically, he also projects a genuinely proscribe view of his personality. The only time Chaucer makes a tight-laced comment is when he calls him a alarming ecclasiast, and points out his talents in reading a lesson . Chaucer generally carcass negative and ultimately characterizes the Pardoner as a penurious and profitless man whose motive behind all actions, is money. Lines 716-723 and 733-734 evoke these accusations.                         He said he had a gobbet of the sail                         nonsuch tool had the time hen he made nervy                         To travel the wave till Jesu Christ took hold.
                        He had a endanger of metal set with stones                         And , in a glass, a dust of pigs bones.                         And with these relics, any time he found                         nearly scant(p) parson to astound ( Chaucer 133).                         And (well he could) win silver from the phratry                         Thats why he sang so merrily and shoddy (133). The Pardoner deceived poor parsons into believing they were buying a valuable relic, in order to gain money. He sings the offeratory, not because he enjoys it, but to gain more money. His actions link him with... If you want to do to a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com
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