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The Pardoner
Title: The Pardoner
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 275 | Pages: 1.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Pardoner
The Pardoner
If the Summoner received Chaucer’s unmitigated disapproval,
the Pardoner is a personification of absolute evil. A Pardoner
sells papal indulgences and relics. He preached that Papal
indulgences pardoned the sins committed in one’s life and
ensured a place in purgatory instead of hell. Pardoners made a
commercial business out of sale of indulgences as they made
them easily available through payment of money. Chaucer’s
Pardoner has come straight from Rome …showed first 75 words of 275 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 275 total…and absence of facial hair indicates that he is a eunuch. He
rides ‘dischevelee’ and his hood is in his bag. He wears a
vernicle on his cap to indicate his official authority. His special
skill lies in singing at the offertory to extract maximum money
from the people. The Pardoner does not invite Chaucer’s gentle
irony but harsh sarcasm. There is an outright condemnation of
the Pardoner’s mal-practices and moral corruption.
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