But right anon thise gentils gonne to crye,
"Nay! lat him telle us of no ribaudye;
Tel us som moral thing, that we may lere
Som wit, and thanne wol we gladly here."
And then, on top of his grossness, hypocrisy seems to be his way of life! "My thee is alwey oon, and evere was- / Radix malorum est Cupiditas" (333). Which means that the love of money is the root to all evil, and yet...he's a pardoner!! He literally forgives the sins of others in exchange for money! And call me crazy, but if he was truly a God-fearing man, he would pardon people out of the kindness of his heart, not out of a desire for a heavier purse.
Not to mention, he preaches about the sin of covetousness and avarice, but he practices both himself. If fact, helping and pushing people to repent these sins is the very way that he feeds into his own vices (which he admits to around lines 424-434). And it would also appear to me that he targets those who are of less intelligence than him, because he believes that they are easier to trick because of their love of tales
"For lewed peple loven tales olde;
Swich thinges can they wel reporte and holde.
What, trowe ye, the whyles I may preche
And winne gold and silver for I teche
That I wol live in poverty wilfully?
And to make me dislike him even more, he tells in his tale of people that drink and gamble and make false oaths, and says that all of those things are sins and whatnot. And yet again, he showcases his hypocrisy by the very fact that while he tells the tale, he himself is drunk. LOL he's so annoying...
I dislike the Pardoner.
So i guess it is fair to say that you dont like the pardoner? lol. Interesting point in the start of this blog, that people have to force him to tell a story with a moral concept for people to listen to him, I didnt look at it like that.
ReplyDeleteIt really is “Get out.” I really wonder where this man would go. He has no friends. They don’t know what to do with him for the most part. I mean they have tried their best to listen to him. They have tried to be kind to him. In reality this man has worn on everyone. They ask of him one think, “Please tell a story with a moral.” I don’t think he knows many morals, and they all get tired of hearing him. It seems that most people know him. They know him all over town. I think after this story they will find him in a bin like cookie monster, scratching himself asking for cooking, gibbering on about the Wholly word. That is the point. There is no word of God in any of it. He lets slip and completely slips into his age. He finds himself stuck in the phase where he does not know what else he can do besides talk in an incoherent fashion about the word of God. I seem to be missing something. I don’t know much about the religion in this period. Where did they go to church? What did they believe in? This period was close to or around the time of the original Catholic monks who spent all day copying the Bible. I don’t know what this means to the church but that is the literal definition of crazy. They are repeating a task over and over again. This does not speak wonders for the way society operated during this period. It also makes one wonder why there was such a religious void that people were drawn to the pardoner or was it like tabloid press where you just can’t help but read it even though you known it’s all rubbish.
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