The Pardoner’s Tale of Chaucers Canterbury Tales :: Pardoners Tale

The Canterbury news reports - The forgivers Tale One might assume that the soulfulness telling the story has a lot to do with the story theyre telling. This is the cocktail dress in the Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. In the narration of The Pardoners, the voice tells a tale traffic with his famous preach Radix malorum est Cupiditas. In English, The root of all repulsiveness is Greed. An ironic distinction can be made with what a Pardoner is known to be, the character (the voice/Pardoner), and the tale that he tells. Through the Prologue of the Pardoners Tale one can say that he lives up to his name. As the Webster lexicon states, a medieval ecclesiastic authorized to raise money for sacred works by granting papal indulgences to contri entirelyors. Pardoners were known to be granters of the church. Which in reality, they would h rare the line all of the money given to them by generous people. They were generally associated with beingness untrustworthy and sneaky. In reality they did have a gift for preaching, but they didnt exactly follow what they preach. In the Prologue the Pardoner shows his true self. Chaucer, describes him as bad as he dislikes him. Portraying him with having long, greasy, yellow hair, and also whiskerless (The Pardoners Tale.) The Pardoner revealing in the Prologue, that the only thing he cares about is money. I preach nothing except for gain (Pardoners Tale.) Aside from being extremely greedy, he is also a hypocrite. He preaches the one thing that hes most guilty for. covetousness is the most of all evil (The Pardoners Tale.) The greed and hypocrisy is also shown in the tale that he tells. Throughout the tale itself, the greed and hypocrisy that the Pardoner has, is also shown. In the tale, three friends convey a Journey in order to kill death. During their journey, they meet an old man that tells them where they can find a treasure. He also warns them that in no way is it good treasure. At this point in the tale, the three friends show their greed, and later their hypocrisy, by planning to kill the other to take the treasure. Eventually, that greed and hypocrisy leads to their downfall.