What Is The Context Of The Pardoner's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer well-known for his Canterbury Tales, has brought critic to their feet. Left with unanswered questions that sparked controversy for many centuries. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the late thirteen hundreds, he came from an affluent family that earned their living from a wine business. Chaucer was educated a board and he was very articulated in English, Latin , French and Italian which extensively influenced his writing. The Canterbury tales had many literary techniques familiar in many of these cultures. He used a mixture of irony, satire, personification and most interestingly narrative framing. Framing was a popular technique used to store smaller stories with in this bigger narrative, but the way Chaucer framed his tale added uniqueness to the Canterbury tales. Every character had their own distinctive voice and personality.
In the beginning of the general prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer the author lays out the story line, for us introducing the main narrative frame. The narrator a pilgrims himself tells us the stories his fellow pilgrim had narrated while travelling Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury , from his memory since there was a significant period of time since the actual travel. Which might hint, that his personal …show more content…
Even though the stories embedded in the pardoners tale might bring complexity to the main narrative itself, it does open up more information and personality trait of the pardoner himself. In the beginning, the pardoner hastily address his fellow pilgrims and exposes himself of his greed and selfish motives, he clearly states he is a liar and tricks the poor villagers, "With this trickery I have won a hundred marks, year, by year since I have been a pardoner" (Chaucer 406), it is evident here that the pardoners earns the trust of the people by peaching about avarice and then deliberately sells fake relics for his own selfish