Personification In The Pardoner's Tale

Did you know there is a crater on the moon named for Geoffrey Chaucer? Here on Earth he is best known for writing The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories, written in middle English at the end of the 14th century, at the end of the Hundreds war. One of the best tales is "The Pardoner's Tale." Geoffrey Chaucer is the first poet to be buried in Poets corner of Westminster Abbey. Though Chaucer died more than 600 years ago, he has more than 2,100 fans on Facebook. Also he had a part time job collecting scrap metal. A summary of "The Pardoner's Tale" is That there is three drinking men that like to get drunk here a funeral outside and finds out that it is his friend that died and wants to kill Death. So they go look around and run into an old man and tell them that Death is under that tree in the woods. As they go look they see a lot of gold and forget about what they were looking for. They send the youngest to go get supplies until …show more content…
Personification is when human characteristic are given to non- human objects. One of the examples of personification is when the servant boy tells the three men about their dead friend. He says "There came a privy thief, they call him Death,....He speared him through the heart." (Chaucer, ll, 67-69) Another example is when the publican came and told the three men "By St. Mary, What the child says is right; you'd best be wary, This very year he killed, in a large village a mile away, man, woman, serf at tillage." (Chaucer, ll, 77-80) Another example is when one of the three men says "we will kill this traitor Death, I say" (Chaucer, ll, 91) Another example is when the three men run into an old man and said "Well, sirs, if it be your design to find out Death, turn up this crooked way towards that grove, I left him there today under a tree, and there you'll find him waiting. He isn't one to hide for all your prating. You see that oak? He wont be hard to find." (Chaucer ll,