Compare And Contrast The Pardoner's Tale And The Canterbury Tales

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In the Canterbury Tales, a group of pilgrims are out on a voyage to the St. Thomas Becket Catholic Church. There is multiple characters, all different in their own ways. The expedition takes a lengthy amount of time, almost a week. During that time the host makes a suggestion to make time pass quicker. Each pilgrim must tell a story, two on the way there and two on the way back. In addition, there were a few rules and a prize to the best story teller. . The pilgrim with the best story will get a meal, of their choosing, paid by the rest of the pilgrims. The host graded the stories on moral education and entertainment value. “The Knight’s Tale” and “The Pardoner’s Tale” were just two of the numerous stories throughout the book. First there is “The Knight’s Tale.” In this tale the knight gives the listeners background information leading up to the story. The teller left no details out. The knight spoke of how Theseus and Creon were in dispute, as a result of the disagreement, Theseus kidnapped and imprisoned two men. They go by the names of Arcite and Palamon. For a brief summary Palamon spots a girl named Emily through the …show more content…

He tells of how three rioters go out on a quest to find death. On their trip they run into an ancient man who leads them to wear death stays. The three men do not find death, but instead find his gold. The men decide to stay overnight to watch the gold and wait for death. After some thought, the men decided someone needed to go into to town to get supplies for the night stay. The youngest goes to town. He has a plan to poison his peers and take the gold for himself. Little did he know the two men back at camp were planning to kill the youngest and take the gold for themselves. The youngest comes back and is disbursed of. The men drink the alcohol the young man brought back from town. Thus, dying as well from the poison the youngest put inside

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