Chaucer - The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
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In Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale," the author provides a portrait of a hypocritical Pardoner in the prologue, but despite this, the Pardoner's tale is wholly moral. We are told in the Prologue that the Pardoner is guilty of jealousy and greed, profiting off indulgences and passing off pigs' bones as the genuine relics of dead saints. As the Pardoner makes clear of his greedy nature, "All my preaching is about avarice and such cursed things, to make them generous in giving their pence and especially to me. My aim is all for gain and not at all for the correction of sin" (Chaucer 503-505). Yet, in the Pardoner's tale, three drunken and greedy men pay for their greed by ironically dying in their search for Death. In the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, Chaucer is implying that despite being sinners themselves, our best means of learning how to avoid sin is the clergy. The Pardoner makes it quite clear in his Prologue that despite his own greed, his easiest method of gaining income is to make his parishioners repent for their own avarice. The Pardoner also makes it clear that though he is as guilty of avarice as anyone, he is bet
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