In "The Pardoner's Tale," how does the Pardoner use his story to accumulate wealth for himself? What does this say about him?

Answer 1

I already know about the pardoner. I know that he convinces people that if they pay money there sins will be forgiven. I just don't understand why the story he tells is a part of it.

Answer 2

Is a part of what?

Answer 3

A part of how he gets his money.

Answer 4

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury[2]) is a collection of over 20 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

I don't believe he is telling his story for money!! Are you clear on why these different people were telling their stories in the first place?

The second question is an opinion question. What do you think of the pardoner?

Answer 5

The question itself says the pardoner uses his story to accumulate wealth. How an I suppose to answer this if you believe he isn't???

Answer 6

What I remember about the character is that he was unscrupulous and didn't seem to mind admitting it!

Answer 7

In the pardoner's tale, he accumulate his health by telling people that their sins will be forgiven if they gave him money.
This prove that he is an extremely deceitful person and is very greedy

Answer 8

these make no sense not trying to be rude

Answer 9

So in the story, the pardoner would tell people that if they gave him money all their sins would be erased or washed away. Therefore, when people would feel guilty for a sin they committed, they would buy their "salvation" from the pardoner. I feel like what this says about the pardoner is that he is untrustworthy and takes advantage of people. The pardoner seen an issue, or seen people in a desperate state of not wanted the wrath of God to come over them for committing sin, and used it to his advantage which is another form of being selfish. It also shows that he's untrustworthy because he was scamming these people. He wasn't actually giving them salvation, he was taken advantage of the mindset they were in for his personal gain which goes back to him being selfish and self centered.

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