The Pardoner's Tale PDF

The Pardoner’s Tale Presented by: Glenn Michael M. Relabo Rey Anthony Caccam  Definition of Terms 1. Avarice - is an intense and often excessive desire for wealth or material gain. 2. Debauchery- refers to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, often involv...

The Pardoner’s Tale Presented by: Glenn Michael M. Relabo Rey Anthony Caccam  Definition of Terms 1. Avarice - is an intense and often excessive desire for wealth or material gain. 2. Debauchery- refers to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures, often involving actions that are considered morally or socially unacceptable. 3. Grisly- causing horror or disgust. 4.. Lechery - excessive or inappropriate sexual desire or behavior. 5. Sepulcher- is a tomb or burial chamber, small, usually stone structure, where corpses are placed. 6. Pestilence- refers to a fatal epidemic disease that spreads rapidly and causes widespread suffering or death. 7. Troth- loyal or pledged faithfulness. The Pardoner, from Ellesmere Characters Manuscript of Chaucer The narrator of the tale, he is a church official who sells indulgences and relics. He is depicted as The Pardoner - greedy and corrupt, using his position to exploit people’s fears of damnation for personal gain, all of this is told during the prologue of the story. The host of an inn who accompanies the pilgrims in their journey to Canterbury. He was the one who The Host - requested a more light-hearted story after the depressing “Physician’s Tale”.  Characters Within The Tale Three Rioters - The main characters in the tale. They are young men who are depicted as reckless and irresponsible. They set out to find and kill Death who killed their old friend. Death - An infamous thief who was said to kill his/her targets in their sleep by stabbing them in the heart. Said to have killed around a thousand men of which was the rioters’ old friend. Old Man - A mysterious figure whom the rioters encounter during their quest. He was the one who told the rioters the location of Death. He symbolizes death and the inevitability of mortality, guiding the rioters to their eventual fate. Publican and - Warns the three rioters about Death. Tavern-Knave  Introduction During this part of the story, the The story begins inside a random tavern Pardoner went into great detail of where three young men indulge in vice how the deeds they committed through gluttony, liquor, gambling and prostitutes. This continues until they hear a were basically devil worship. bell signifying a corpse on it’s way to a grave. They find out out that it was their old friend, the tavern-knave and publican said that it was Death who killed him thus they set out on a quest to avenge their fallen friend.  Rising Action The youngest went to town in On their quest, they met a poor old man order to buy food and drink so whom they ridiculed and accused of being that they can wait for nighttime, an ally of death. The old man in response he bought a powerful poison from told them that Death was waiting for them an apothecary and poisoned the under a tree inside a grove. When the drinks as his method for murder. three men went there, they found a pile of The other two planned to wrestle treasure instead. They rejoiced and devised the youngest and stab him to a plan to move the treasure under the death. cover of night, what they did not know was they had planned to murder each other so that they could a larger amount of the treasure for themselves.  Climax The three killed each other As night fell and the youngest returned to without any remorse as long as the tree, the two that were left behind they benefitted from it. Their oath immediately put their plan into action and of brotherhood broken and their killed him. As soon as they were done, lives wasted over material wealth. they partook in the drinks brought by the youngest and died due to the poison leaving all three dead without anyone left to claim the treasure as their own.  Conclusion The pardoner is a hypocrite and The pardoner states that greed is the charlatan preaching about the source of all evil in the world and that he values of morality and ethics but denounces it, but in an action contrary to abuses the fear of the people so his statement he states that he has relics that he can gain wealth but still, that are available for purchase and asks in his own words: “For though I the host to kiss him and pay respects. am a wholly vicious man, don’t think I can’t tell moral tales. I can!” “Radix malorum est cupiditas” “Greed is the root of all evil”