Who Is The Pardoner's Tale

My favorite text from this semester was the story called “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer. This is my first favorite text from the semester because of how much Chaucer uses the character of the Pardoner to attack the Roman Catholic church. He makes the character of the Pardoner and Summoner very greedy; just as the church was in the 1300’s of Chaucer’s time. As history will already tell, the Roman Catholic church was greedy during the Middle Ages or Dark Ages. So this fits well into the story of the “Pardoner’s Tale.” I also have a great love of the man Geoffrey Chaucer and how he used the characters from his series called the Canterbury Tales to attack not only the greed of the Roman Catholic church but also the hypocrisy of the church, the social class, and the Patriarchy. The next favorite story of mine is “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by the same author, Geoffrey Chaucer. This is a favorite story of mine because of how Chaucer uses the character of the Wife of Bath to attack the Patriarchy. Chaucer used the Wife of Bath and her tale to “really” attack the Patriarchy. Her tale is about a woman who is used as the person in charge of the house. She controls …show more content…
This is a love story. It is about the man known as Federigo who had a good life. He was in love with a woman. That woman’s name was Monna Giovanna. So when he has tried numerous times to get her to pay attention to him, he decides he has had it with trying to get her to notice him and goes to live in the country. That is when her son gets sick and he wants the only possession that Federigo kept, his falcon. When she visits him, he then cooks her a meal of his falcon. She then asks him for the falcon and he proceeds to tell her that what they ate was the falcon. This is a favorite story of mine because it is what can be described as the tragic story of love and how love can also show how love can be very