The Canterbury Tales Vs The Pardoner's Tale

Which one is the better tale “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” or “The Pardoner’s Tale?” The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a very well known story in the medieval time. In The Canterbury Tales during the spring a group gathers and wants to go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury where they will find the shrine of Saint Thomas a Beckert. On their journey they stayed at a high class inn called The Tabard, where they found an innkeeper who wanted to join them on their journey to Canterbury. They continued their journey and began a storytelling competition to pass the time. Throughout the storytelling they must not judge any of the other stories or the person who judged will have to pay for the trip. In the end whoever were to have the best story was given a meal. On their

[attention getter]. Geoffrey Chaucer, in his novel The Canterbury Tales, deals with many tales of medieval life and morals. The writing follows a large group of pilgrims who have all been challenged to tell their best tale, one that teaches a valuable lesson, on the journey to Canterbury. Two of the stories told, “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, make their points in very notable ways. The Pardoner tells a story of three men who come to pay for indulging in the sin of greed, while the Wife of Bath recounts a story of questionable morality involving a knight struggling for redemption after breaking his code of honor. Though The Canterbury Tales presents two sound stories, “The Pardoner’s Tale” is clearly better story based on its adherence to the central plot, its use of personification, and its moral.

The three characters from the Canterbury tales: the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath, and Walter from the clerk’s tale, all have aspects that are represented in today’s society. The Pardoner’s religious views are still present today. The Wife of Bath’s ethics and the morals of Walter from the Clerk’s Tale are also present.

In “ The Pardoner's Tale” and “ The Wife of Bath” by Geoffrey Chaucer, the people who do not learn from the mistakes they make suffer repercussions.

Greed greed is in the air, greed greed is everywhere. Geoffrey Chaucer’s story The Canterbury Tales begins with a prologue that gives us some background of the setting and why theses stories are being told. The pilgrims were traveling and to pass the time they told stories. There were two main stories that we read, “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of bath’s Tale”. These are two of the multiple stories in The Canterbury Tales. These stories tell stories that make fun of the church.The two stories also have a main focus of explaining morals in a hidden way. Both stories express more than one moral and it gives the reader a sense of what Chaucer is trying to express. “The Pardoners’s Tale” Is a better story because of its relatible

In the three readings, Pardoner’s Prologue, Pardoner’s Tale and Wife of Bath's Tale Chaucer uses satire. Satire is another word for sarcasm. He displays several accounts of sarcasm throughout all three of them. In the Pardoner’s Tale, that is where he displays his satire of the church. In Pardoner’s Prologue he critiques the patriarchy. And finally in Wife of Bath's Tale, he attacks the class. Chaucer will use satire to address three different sacred institutions, the critique of the church, the patriarchy and the attack on the class.

In Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer tells the story about a pilgrimage to the shrine St. Thomas Becket. This journey was one of the most popular sites visited in England. The reason they traveled to this place was to have hopes for forgiving their sins. On the voyage to the place, the Host decided to make it fun. He suggested a game that each one would tell a story. He would be the judge to say whoever the winner was. He also included that the best story told, would win a dinner that was paid by everyone else in the group. Each member draws a straw to see who would tell his story first. The first of the group to tell his tale, is the Knight. All of the characters that tell their story are different in many ways, and also so have similarities with the people inside their stories.

The Pardoner is a pilgrim in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who is licensed to sell Church pardons. Because of this job, he constantly deals with others’ money and quickly becomes consumed by it. In the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer makes it very clear that the Pardoner only attempts to “win silver from the crowd” (Chaucer 163). It is very apparent that the Pardoner is greedy, and he does not try to hide this fact. Before the

Jane Austin, an extremely talented British author, once claimed, “Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.” The bookshelves built today hold many brilliants works of old, new, foreign, and native, some even introducing debatable theories and ideas for their readers to contemplate, such as the possible existence of Beowulf’s pride and boasting in the great work, Beowulf. The question begins to form when Beowulf introduces himself to Hrothgar, describing to the troubled king, his reason for coming and the tales of his many successes and triumphs in battle. While many have deduced this seemingly boastful passage as conceit and arrogance, many have

The third comparison if how both travellers have corrupt desires. The Pardoner wants money and uses his profession as a pardoner to rob people of their money; in relation to how the Wife of Bath uses her sexual abilities to trick men and bribe them to give her things and do whatever she says.[TS3-Comparison]. The Wife of Bath talks about virginity and chastity and how it is a great perfection, like Christ, but she explains that she is not this type and will use her abilities in marriage in her favor. [CE5]. “But Christ, the fountain of perfection, did not instruct every person to go sell all that he had and give to the poor, and in such a fashion follow him and his footsteps. “He spoke this to those people who wished to be perfect; and by your leave, gentle people, I am not one of those. I will use the flower of my life in the acts and fruits of marriage.”[E5].

From only hearing about the “Canterbury Tales”, I initially thought the story would be uninteresting and just an average tale with a specific generic moral. To my surprise, Wife of Bath encompassed more than what I expected, it themed satire, church corruption, social issues, as well as women’s rights and biased power held by society. One of the more interesting parts of this tale is the tone of the story, although it has satirical elements, the overall tone to me seemed straightforward. There was really no need to “beating around the bush” with the way Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the tale. I also found it satirical that the language and settings had a romance-feel to it while the concept of the tale really wasn’t remotely lovey-dovey.

The Pardoner in the Canterbury Tales is not a “noble ecclesiast” because of visual suggestions that are given by Chaucer. Chaucer describes the Pardoner as being an odd fellow, having an unnaturally feminine composition. The Pardoner has long golden hair, a high voice, and bulging eyeballs (which suggest a hormonal imbalance, associating him more with a feminine character). The fact that he was feminine also shed light that he might be homosexual, which was contradictory to the Church’s beliefs that he worked for. The Pardoner is described wearing expensive clothing, and many extravagant accessories. The accessories worn by the Pardoner are ironic because most of his accessories are crosses, and he is anything but a holy man. The idea of the irony of the Pardoner is best portrayed in line 705, “He’d sewed a holy

In the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the most significant characters is the Wife of Bath. She has radical views about women and marriage in a time when what is expected from a woman is to be passive and submissive in a relationship. She is one of the story tellers of the book. Besides her story, there is also another part of the book where we can learn about Wife of Bath herself, the main prologue. When a comparison is made between these two parts, one can see not only some similiraties but differences, as well. The most apparent similarity that clearly depicts the comparison between the prologue and the tale are her knowledge of marriage and love, However, besides her physical appearance and character, also, due to the genre

Of all intelligence and intuition attributed to man, it is not enough to overcome the characteristics that will lead to the downfall of our own kind. Such characteristics take root in man and protrude out of him no matter how hard he tries to deny their presence. Man himself is aware of these characteristics and they play a part on all forms of entertainment, and fuel almost all actions made by man. In “The Pardoner’s Tale” written by Chaucer, the theme of pride and greed leading to demise is prominent.

A story that reflects a timeless issue of equality, morals, and lesson on what women really desire. The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer is a story in The Canterbury Tales that expresses multiple moral lessons and an exciting dialogue that provides an entertaining story. The two stories that will be examined today are the “Pardoners Tale” and “The Wife of Bath”, after much evaluation I believe that “The Wife of Bath” is the better story. This is the better story because it’s more entertaining and also has more morals with better quality.