The poems “The Pardoners Tale” and “The Wife of Bath,” are both written by Geoffrey Chaucer. One story tells the tale about a man who skims people out of their money, and the other is about a woman trying to make a point. Though they seem different they still have similarities. The “Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath” were poems based off of similar themes but there are also significant differences.
The poems “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The wife of bath” were both handwritten by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. These poems were apart of the “Canterbury Tales,” never getting finished because of his death in late October, 1400. His plans were to write over one hundred poems but he had only gotten to twenty-four. There were over 80 copies …show more content…
In both they use God as a source of power, but for different reasons. One is using God to make money and the other is to use him as a type of praise. Though they use God, they also use bribery. In this situation, bribery is persuading someone to do something in exchange for something else. They both use this in the poems, one uses God for money, and the other uses a man to do what she wants for a simple answer. They have different values of bribery though. “The Pardoner’s Tale” bribery is used to make money, for example: you buy a relic you are living the right way. In “The Wife of Bath” they use bribery as a bigger ordeal, the bribery placed is life or death. If he doesn’t take the old hag’s bribe then he will, more than likely, be decapitated. Though they have these two main comparisons and differences, there is one more big thing they have in common, selfishness. Both poems use a great ordeal of selfishness. In “The Pardoner’s Tale” the man wants all the money to himself, so he kills all of his friends. In “The Wife of Bath,” the man did a terrible thing and did not get punished, and found an easy way out.
Like the dissimilarities in the poems the themes are different too. In the “The Pardoner’s Tale” the theme is “greed is the root of all evil”. The only reason he killed all of his friends is because of money. Wealth was all he wanted and to be the wealthiest he would have to …show more content…
He rapes the girls and gets sentenced to decapitation, but the woman things a better plan. She says that he can find out what every woman truly wants within a year, he can have his life back. He man travels from place to place, asking tons of people what the answer would be, some saying love, joyfulness, money, or other things. He didn’t know what to think, but then he sees the beautiful ladies dancing by the lake. He walks over to them noticing that they weren’t young at all, they were old hags, but he told them his pediment and thought they could help. One woman said if I help you, you have to do as I please. He had no other choice but to pick her, so they went back to the person in charge of his decapitation and got her to answer the question. She said “all women want is a man to do as she say.” After saying that the lady in charge granted the man his freedom. The old hag then asked the man to marry her and he had to say yes, even though he did not like her. She asked him why he didn’t and he said bluntly because she was ugly, but she didn’t care, she gave him a choice. “you can either have me ugly and nice or beautiful and men” said the hag, but he said “do what you think is better.” With saying that it made the woman happy, he said exactly what she wanted him to say. By saying that she became beautiful and nice and did everything he wanted her to
The poems “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The wife of bath” were both handwritten by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. These poems were apart of the “Canterbury Tales,” never getting finished because of his death in late October, 1400. His plans were to write over one hundred poems but he had only gotten to twenty-four. There were over 80 copies …show more content…
In both they use God as a source of power, but for different reasons. One is using God to make money and the other is to use him as a type of praise. Though they use God, they also use bribery. In this situation, bribery is persuading someone to do something in exchange for something else. They both use this in the poems, one uses God for money, and the other uses a man to do what she wants for a simple answer. They have different values of bribery though. “The Pardoner’s Tale” bribery is used to make money, for example: you buy a relic you are living the right way. In “The Wife of Bath” they use bribery as a bigger ordeal, the bribery placed is life or death. If he doesn’t take the old hag’s bribe then he will, more than likely, be decapitated. Though they have these two main comparisons and differences, there is one more big thing they have in common, selfishness. Both poems use a great ordeal of selfishness. In “The Pardoner’s Tale” the man wants all the money to himself, so he kills all of his friends. In “The Wife of Bath,” the man did a terrible thing and did not get punished, and found an easy way out.
Like the dissimilarities in the poems the themes are different too. In the “The Pardoner’s Tale” the theme is “greed is the root of all evil”. The only reason he killed all of his friends is because of money. Wealth was all he wanted and to be the wealthiest he would have to …show more content…
He rapes the girls and gets sentenced to decapitation, but the woman things a better plan. She says that he can find out what every woman truly wants within a year, he can have his life back. He man travels from place to place, asking tons of people what the answer would be, some saying love, joyfulness, money, or other things. He didn’t know what to think, but then he sees the beautiful ladies dancing by the lake. He walks over to them noticing that they weren’t young at all, they were old hags, but he told them his pediment and thought they could help. One woman said if I help you, you have to do as I please. He had no other choice but to pick her, so they went back to the person in charge of his decapitation and got her to answer the question. She said “all women want is a man to do as she say.” After saying that the lady in charge granted the man his freedom. The old hag then asked the man to marry her and he had to say yes, even though he did not like her. She asked him why he didn’t and he said bluntly because she was ugly, but she didn’t care, she gave him a choice. “you can either have me ugly and nice or beautiful and men” said the hag, but he said “do what you think is better.” With saying that it made the woman happy, he said exactly what she wanted him to say. By saying that she became beautiful and nice and did everything he wanted her to