Geoffrey Robertson

the medieval church and the corruption that consumes the church is easily identified by the information that is provided from Chaucer, Armstrong, Mand and Krista that help support facts of this time in history. Mostly seen in the Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer describes how corrupt people in the medieval church steal from and takes advantage of the people they are supposed to help. One way the church used its power to take advantage of the people was by making them pay for a pardon of…

A chauvinistic person is someone who feels loyalty or respect toward their gender or group. Geoffrey Chaucer’s view on women in The Canterbury Tales is greatly satirized allowing him to be seen as chauvinistic. The women in the tales are told about in a different manner than the men. The women throughout are shown as strong and powerful; but also express a quality that men fear in the end and cause their downfall. Chaucer talks about women in many of the tales and expresses them in some way of…

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…

Chaucer compliments the Friar’s skill at begging as a form of critiquing the church’s greed, yet he mocks the Clerk’s material poverty to emphasize that the knowledge the Clerk seeks is of more value than money; these characters’ monetary states are meant to show the reader the misplaced values society has by showing a corrupt man with money and a honorable man without it. The Friar is “a worthy licensed beggar” who focuses on spending time with the rich who will give him money, rather than the…

For the philosophes, society was a rats nest of problems, problems they attempted to address through their writings. In Candide, Voltaire often poked at the issues around wealth and religion. Money, to Candide, seemed like the solution to all his problems. After visiting El Dorado Candide has the wealth to purchase the freedom of all his companions. He need not worry about repercussions or the law, however this power also begets his own unhappiness. Losing the majority of his sheep and wealth,…

The Most Immoral Pardoner The Pardoner is the most immoral character of the clergy in the Canterbury Tales prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Pardoner breaks many vows put in place by the clergy for all clergy members to follow. The vow of poverty for instance he breaks by having lots of money from pardons, “His wallet lay before him on his lap, brimful of pardons come from rome” (Chaucer 706-707). He has a load of money in his wallet, not a way to live in a poverty if you think about it. He…

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…

III. The Pardoner discloses another trait that is displayed by himself and the characters in his tale concluded to be hypocrisy. The Pardoner himself proves to be a very greedy person, but persistently insisted that money was the root of all evil when him himself focused on money. He finished his story and then at the end asked for penance. "Avarice is the root of all evil" This represents the hypocrisy in the personality of the pardoner as he says this while gathering penance. The characters…

More Pilgrims (An Analysis of Three People Chaucer Would Add to The Group Today) Many ways of life have changed between the years of 1300 and today, 700 years after. Technology, medicine and construction are just a few ways we as humans have discovered superior ways to enhance our ever changing lives. With the change of the modern world, people also began to change. Style, language and the way we act as humans beings has been constantly evolving. In the novel Canterbury Tales written by the…

There are seven deadly sins. There are three main one’s that apply to pardoner’s tale and they are pride,envy and greed.They are used by the three men that were drunk and then went to go look for death after they have heard the news that their friend has died. first of these three men are not your good people they were very bad they were filled with sins. would be drunk all the time and would be swearing. So they go look for death and they don’t find it and when they don’t they see a old man…