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Pardoner

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The Pardoner 

 

 

Pardoner is described as a medieval preacher who collected money offerings (as for building a church) to which indulgences were attached;

a person who pardons for sins committed, preaches, and sells relics . Pardons are atonements for sins and the person gives a "charitable" donation are are supposedly for given, and will not go to hell. It got to the point were crooks would sell indulgences with the pope's forged signature to people and pocket the money, but if they were a preacher or pardoner they would sell it for enough to give to the church and get some cash off the top as well.

 

Expectations of the pardoner were things like:

 

  • To live as they preach
  • Not to get married or date 
  • Help people to confess to their sins
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Description:

  •  long yellow hair 
  • smooth face (no beard)
  • quite voice
  • big eyes 
  • " no one as equal as he"

 

This character is basically corrupt because:

  1.  he undermines the rules of his occupation by saying things like " Come hither,love, come home!" and in saying such thing he leads you to believe he is dating someone. 
  2. And even more the summoner is singing along with him, so he could possibly be in a relationship with him.
  3. Being a male and described by the narrator as having no facial hair and a soft voice questions his masculinity or that the narrator is not quite sure of his sexuality. "I judge he was a gelding, or a mare"
  4. he also claims to carry "our lady's veil" (kerchief of the Virgin Mary) among his relics but really has "cross of metal set with stones"

"glass, and rubble of pig's bones" - so he had fake relics he has been selling

5. The reading suggest that everything he did was about the money, for one because it says "how well he read a lesson or told a story! but best of all he sang an offertory, for well he knew that when that song was sung he'd have to preach and tune his honey-tongue and (well he could) win silver from the crowd. that's why he sang so merrily and loud."  

6. steadily preaches "money is the root of all evil", but yet he lives exactly what he preaches against.

 

Other reviews:  

  • "The irony begins as soon as the Pardoner starts his prologue. He tells the other pilgrims that his sermons reflect how money is the root of all evil. He actually preaches against his own problems and sins. Pardoners who took money in return for forgiveness were supposed to use the the money for charity, but he, like many other Pardoner's in his time, used the money for his own satisfaction. The Pardoner makes a mockery of the entire church by fabricating stories about his phony relics. Chaucer shows how the Church is so corrupt, that even a Pardoner who admits to his evil ways, can still cheat the people out of their money. The Pardoner begins his story by condemning the common sins of society such as drinking and gluttony. The irony of his criticism lies in the fact that he has been drinking himself, and that he is an admitted glutton. There are also many ironic elements of the story itself. The rioters in his story, vow to set out and slay Death. In doing so, they promise to fight and die for each other. There are two ironies in their mission. First, Death is hardly a being that can be killed. Second, the three drunken fighters pledge to die for each other, but in reality they kill each other. " - Teacher. jan28,2009. enotes.com

 

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Bibliography: 

  •  Paraphrased by Kantor

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl430/pardoner/whatsapardoner.html

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pardoner's_Tale#Character_analysis 

 http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/characters.html

  • McDougal Littell ; Literature Brithis Literature 

  • reviews: 

 http://www.enotes.com/canterbury-tales/q-and-a/irony-discrepancy-between-expectations-reality-how-60517

  • Video: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVLLQna1-c

 

 

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