External Experience In The Pardoner's Tale

In the text, “The Pardoner’s tale” Chaucer uses a character's external experience to share about the person's inner nature. Chaucer describes each pilgrim. In the medieval period, they judged people based on their personal appearance. Chaucer describes people through external experience to describe their personality and morals. Therefore, the best example can be seen through the Pardoner. Chaucer describes him as, his hair is greasy and yellow as wax. He has bulgy eyes and is very unattractive. With the little descriptions of the Pardoner, he can be concluded as probably not the best guy to be around. Many of his descriptions do not seem very positive. One character that Chaucer used his external experience to share about the person's inner nature is the …show more content…
These were probably actual pieces of paper with a bishop's signature on them, entitling the bearer to forgiveness for their sins. After his tale, the Pardoner tries to sell these relics to the other pilgrims, angering the Host, who questions their authenticity. Based on Chaucer's description it is most likely concluded that he is not the best guy. He is able to cheat a poor person out of two months of slavery. He is incredibly good at preaching but in his prologue it is included that he only does this to win money. He is berating the people for their sinfulness so they will be more likely to buy what he is selling. Overall the Pardoner is not an attractive man. He is willing to lie to poor people, and just get money any way he can. He is very proud of himself because he think he is doing attractive things and he thinks he is an attractive man with his yellow waxy hair and bulgy eyes. He has driven his entire life around greed. He is super greedy, fraud is motivated by greed. He is extremely guilty of all seven sins. All he wants is everything to himself, therefore that explains why he tricks the poor people. The Pardoner says “ Money is the root of evil”. Therefore his desire for money