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Geoffrey Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer’s masterpiece “The Canterbury Tales”
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s masterpiece “The Canterbury Tales” depicts characters from every stratum of feudal society and exposes the contradictions of the character’s social roles. As a Church representative, the Pardoner, for instance, is to be a scammer of gullible believers. His tale is an ironic narrative that speaks about human morality. The Pardoner’s tale is of three men finding fortune to have a better life and defeat death, but end up killing each other. Though the use of irony in “The Pardoner’s Tale” satirizes both the corruption of the Catholic Church and individual human greed and materialism as evidenced by the characters in the tale and the Pardoner himself. The prologue or the introduction of the Pardoner’s tale reveals his true character. The Pardoner uses his ties as a Church to manipulate people into giving him ill- gotten funds. He tells false tales and displays false artifacts just to fuel his “avarice.” The Pardoner makes a lucrative living preaching “mockeries” in his “sermon, for it frees the pelf” and his purpose is to “win” and not to redeem people of “sin.” The Pardoner himself is an embodiment of irony and contradiction by not only his practice of corruption but his tale being a moving parable that would strike shame within a person. The main characteristic of his personality and his tale is summed in his biblical statement in Latin, “Radix malorum est cupiditas,” translated as “the love of money is the root of all evil.” His irony derives from his wealthy-beggar status, corruption of the Church, and his tale denouncing all of his practices.
The tales three main characters of three young men drinking at local tavern and stumble upon the rumors of a thief named Death that began killing ruthlessly around a local village. The three men then swear to “kill this traitor Death” and made an oath to “live and die for one another.” Their oath begins the theme of irony as later, these men who wished to protect each other like brothers all...
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