The Pardoner's Prologue Sparknotes

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoners Prologue which I chose for the text analysis was one of the most ridiculous and outstanding tales I have ever read since I have been here in college. Written in the thirteenth-century, Chaucer’s does a good job at painting a picture looking into what life was during the medieval ages. The Pardoners Prologue is basically that of a Pardoner that would go around towns and sell documents signed by bishops granting pardon to sinners, usually the poor. In doing so, the pardoner makes high amounts of money from the poor and in his prologue he boasts about not feeling any guilt himself from the wrong he is doing. The Pardoner by making his confession about his hypocrisy seems to be saying he wished he could be more sincere but if he ever does he loses his lavish life of delicious food, power and money. Throughout the analysis in …show more content…
Chaucer’s Pardoner, and what he is offering is a chance at eternal life, a ticket to heaven, but in doing so the sinners must first be betrayed by their own kind and then have their shot at eternal life. The Pardoner manipulates his victims emotionally and dishonesty while speaking jargon and by saying “A few words in the Latin tongue I say To add a little spice to what I preach”(Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Prologue LINE #344-345). From lines three hundred and thirty five to lines three hundred and forty-five the Pardoner exposes how convinces the people. As for his relics he makes his victims believe that everybody wants them. Salvation and the forgiveness of sins is what the people of good are reaching for, and the sure way of reaching the almighty God is by the forgiveness of sins you have all the tools you need to get what you want in the thirteen hundred