- - - Explain who or what Chaucer satarizes in the prologue and tale. Support with evidence from text.
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- - Identify four of the Seven Deadly Sins as they are used in the
prologue or the tale and explain how Chaucer is using them (to satarize,
to criticize, to do whatever . . . you tell me.)
-- Chaucer really goes out and talks about the seven deadly sins. He shows how people are so believable to things with official stamps. He shows the greed can control you. As for the man would sell pardons and lie to your face.
ReplyDelete-- The four sins are Gluttony, Pride, Sloth, and Lust. Chaucer shows how each one of those sins applies in the story. With Gluttony, it shows how drunkenness was applied in this town. With Pride, he will boast about the sins he has done. Sloth, he has no desire to use his own hands for work, just take peoples money. Lust, the greed for all the money. It ends up showing in a murder because of money found under an oak tree.
Chaucer is criticizing the pardoner in this particular tale. The pardoner is supposed to be a symbol of god and portray holy and righteousness behavior. Yet he is just a man using other peoples guilt and wrong doing to benefit his own prosperity.
ReplyDeleteAlthough The pardoner commits all of the seven deadly sins, four of them stand out the most and they are greed , gluttony, pride and sloth
Greed is most likely the sin that The pardoner commits the most. The only reason he is even a Pardoner is because he only cares about taking as much money as he can get and he doesn't care who it's from. The next sin is gluttony, particularly drunk ness the pardoner preached about how drunk ness has ruined the world but he could not pardon the to men until he had a drink. Gluttony is also shown widely because the pardoner always wants more than he needs to satisfy himself. Also found in the pardoner is slothfulness. The pardoner displayed no desire to work with his own hands. He admits his distaste for poverty and expressed his preference to live in luxury. Lastly pride,The pardoner was a proud man. While others were not as educated as he was, the pardoner spoke in Latin to show off his linguistic ability. His failure to practice what he preached made him a model of hypocrisy and deceit.
1.) In this prologue and tale chaucer is satarizing the pardoner. He is satarizing the pardoner because a pardoner is a man for god and he is making him go against his faith by satarizing him. The evidence in the tale is when chaucer makes the pardoner break 4 out of the 7 deadly sins those sins being greed, sloth, pride, and gluttony.
ReplyDelete2.) First in the prologue is Gluttony. He uses this sin when the pardoner says it is the most committed one. The pardoner would indulge himself in drinking and going against his beliefs. The next sin would be sloth. Sloth is used when the pardoner doesnt want to work for money. The pardoner wants to take the easy way out and just skam people and take there money making him go against his faith. The next sin is Pride. Pride is used when the pardoner is to confortable on himself to scam people out of there money, which would make him go against his faith. Lastly the last sin is greed. Greed is used when the pardoner wants to be rich so bad that he would go to any extent to achieve this goal. He would do anything to get his hands on money resulting in him to go against his faith. Chauchers uses these 4 sins to satarize the pardoner who is a "man of god" by making him break these sins and go against god is how he using them in the tale.
-He saterizes businessmen by saying they sell lies or fake things. In the story he is selling fake forgiveness from Rome. It shows how they are heartless people.
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1- Chaucer explains glutony on the first page saying that people drink too much.
2-Chaucer pretty much says that the pardoner is greedy throughout the story saying he has no interest in helping people he just wants to get money
3-sloth is also found in the tale. It criticizes business men and there laziness.
4-lust is also found in the tale the pardoner says
Chaucer uses satire in the prologue and the tale when he talks about the church. He uses every opportunity he has to go against the church and poke fun at it. In the Pardoner's prologue, Chaucer says, "And nevermore shall he mistrust his wife,/ Despite the truth about her sinful life,/ With even priests as lovers, two or three." In this quote, he is saying how even someone as high up and as religious as a priest, they can make mistakes and even they can be corrupted. Chaucer does this throughout the tales.
ReplyDelete1. Greed- "I only preach to satisfy my greed." The pardoner preaches and sells pardons from the "pope." He makes a lot of money this way. People would give him silver and gold for these pardons. He takes advantage of people and takes their money so they feel better about themselves. If they did anything wrong, he would make sure that he would sell them a pardon so they would feel better about their sins. He cares more about the materialistic things in life than the more important things in life, like love, jobs, and religion. All the pardoner thinks about is money and power.
2. Gluttony- Chaucer uses gluttony when he criticizes Adam from the Adam and Eve story from the bible. He blames it on gluttony when Adam ate the apple from the forbidden fruit tree. Chaucer tells the readers that Adam over-indulged in food which led to him eating the fruit from the forbidden tree.
3. Sloth-"And never will I labor with my hands". This quote proves to the readers that he will keep scamming people so he will never have to do manual labor. Chaucer criticizes the pardoner for being too lazy to actually be able to hold a real steady job were he could provide for himself. Instead, the pardoner scams people of their money.
4. Pride- "Let him come forth and offer in God's name/ And I'll absolve him by authority/ That has by papal bull been granted." Chuacer satarizes the pardoner when he says this. Chaucer is making fun of the pardoner for being proud of himself for being able to get to these people and scam them of their money. The pardoner tells everyone that he is "of authority" when really he is not at all. Chaucer makes the pardoner look like a fool to the readers.
1. I believe that in The Pardoner's Prologue and The Pardoner's Tale, Chaucer is satirizing the church of his time, and how little authority they actually showed. During the length of the tale, Chaucer is using the Pardoner as someone who is from the church, selling pardons to the people, and making them believe that if they purchase one of these pardons they will be forgiven of their sins. The Pardoner tells the people who buys these that they basically don't work, and he's just fooling them into giving him their money for something that doesn't work. He is making a statement through the Pardoner saying that the church could be lying to you about how itself operates, or they could be telling the truth about everything. Chaucer makes the statement that they're lying to make money off of the people.
ReplyDelete2. In The Pardoner's Tale, he first uses gluttony as one of the seven deadly sins, stating that it is the first of the deadly sins that were established. He states that the people of his days were full of gluttony, and that the people are forever hungry "Until your glutton's appetite is spent!" The second deadly sin found in the tale is the use of wrath with God and the people. He states that the people show wrath towards God, and he says that the people "...shalt not take my name is vain" when referring to God, and the actions of the people. The third deadly sin in the tale is pride. I believe that pride is shown in the tale through the people and how they are trying their hardest to fight for what they believe in, and they will not go silent through death. They believe they will not dishonor God. The fourth sin found inside the tale is lust. Lust is shown in the tale by how the people respect their family, and the loved ones that they have in their life. They will not dishonor their family and friends, and seem to be willing to die for one another.