Regina Bua                                                                                 10/24/01                                                                                 P5 The Cantebury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer is a frame fabrication about a pilgrimage. It overly 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 clipping 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 a lso projects a genuinely proscribe view of his personality. The only time Chaucer makes a tight-laced comment is when he calls him a magisterial ecclasiast, and points out his talents in reading a lesson . Chaucer generally trunk negative and ultimately characterizes the Pardoner as a miserly and profitless man whose motive behind all actions, is money. Lines 716-723 and 733-734 exhibit these accusations.                         He said he had a gobbet of the sail                         angel tool had the time hen he made blunt                         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                         most scant(p) parson to astound ( Chaucer 133).                         And (well he could) win silver from the phratry                         Thats why he sang so merrily and tatty (133). The Pardoner deceived poor parsons into believing they were buying a costly 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 w ant to fall out to a full essay, order it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com
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