Character analysis in The Pardoner's Tale
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- Characters in The Pardoner's Tale
- The Pardoner
- Occupation
- Breaks moral and artistic conventions
- Suggesting good deeds go unrewarded/bad deeds go unpunished
- Pardoner is a rogue who gets away with his villainy and revels in what he does
- Corrupt religious figure
- Chaucer is implying criticism of the church
- Suggests that the church creates characters that lack self-will/self-awareness to act in any other way
- Adds novelty and shock
- Can't tell whether he actually beiieves in God
- If he does then his desire for a good life for himself is stronger than his religious convictions
- If he doesn't then he is hypocritical, pretending to hold a belief he doesn't in order to defraud those who do
- Chaucer is implying criticism of the church
- Breaks moral and artistic conventions
- Sexual identity
- Squeaky voice and absence of a beard - could be a ******, woman dressed as a man or homosexual
- Church teaches against homosexuality
- "A voys he hadde as small as hath a goot" "no berd hadde he"
- Squeaky voice and absence of a beard - could be a ******, woman dressed as a man or homosexual
- Occupation
- The 3 rioters
- Symbolic habitual sinners
- Spend their days wickedly- eating, drinking, gambling, cursing and blaspheming
- Never named and it is hard to distinguish between them
- Implies that sin overrides personality
- "the proudeste of thise riotoures" or "the yonsete" but never differentiated
- "the proudeste of thise riotoures" or "the yonsete" but never differentiated
- Implies that sin overrides personality
- Speech & actions demonstrate sinful characteristic
- Aggressive and threatening when speaking to old man
- Plot behind a friends back - duplictious
- Lack intelligence and insight as they cannot draw a link between old man's directions and money
- Audience do not feel sympathetic towards them because they are villains
- Glad they get what they deserve
- Pleased that the plots do not work out as planned
- Symbolic habitual sinners
- The Old Man
- First and only person the men meet
- "Whan they han goon nat fully half a mile"
- Old and "povre" and greets them "fully mekely"
- Speaks simply and humbly but with wisdom, mystery and melancholy
- Speculation of his existence - death? God? prophet? just and old man?
- Death
- Shows no fear of the rioters - if he is death personified he has no reason to fear
- Has lived so long
- may have hiddden powers to lend confidence
- Could be immortal
- "Ne Deeth, allas, ne wol nat han my lyf" - now not even death will take my life
- Has been singled out as not being allowed to die or could be death himself
- Supernatural
- Has travelled as far as India to swap his age for youth
- Death
- First and only person the men meet
- The Pardoner
- Cheats country parsons out of their money to fund a comfortable life for himself
- Breaks moral and artistic conventions
- Suggesting good deeds go unrewarded/bad deeds go unpunished
- Pardoner is a rogue who gets away with his villainy and revels in what he does
- Breaks moral and artistic conventions
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