Beowulf’s most iconic similarity to modern times is the heroic nature in Beowulf’s character. Today there are numerous modern day heroes from companies such as Marvel and DC Comics. These heroes use either bruit strength and force or their whit and intelligent to overcome the evil at hand. In Beowulf the author describes Beowulf as “the mightiest man on earth, / highborn and powerful” (Greenblatt, 46). Also, Beowulf is given superhuman qualities such as strength. Beowulf’s …show more content…
Through many of the pilgrims that Chaucer writes about there seems to be a constant theme of corruption especially in most of the religious pilgrims such as the Pardoner and the Friar. The Pardoner was basically a salesman who sold “freedom” in other words. He would go out selling pardons for people’s sins, but he was over charging them and pocketing the rest. He was a hypocrite who preached on the notion the greed is the root of all evil while he himself lived a life full of greed (314). The same goes for the Friar, he bought people confessions and the administration of sacraments for the people. He even seduced women and then wed them off to other men as it states in line 212-13 “maad ful many a mariage / Of yonge wommen at his owene cost"