Category: The Pardoner’s Tale

Stories are built on trust. But who or what we put our trust in is relative. Pardoners Tale is a story about a corrupt pardoner telling his interesting story. The Pardoner makes sure that the audience knows that he is a liar, driven by avarice above all else and that his intentions are foul. I…

In The General Prologue, Chaucer presents himself to the audience as the narrator of his poem. Because his primary purpose throughout the whole poem was to observe and describe the character travelers that where traveling from England to Canterbury and to report to the audience each of the traveler’s tale. Chaucer starts by telling his…

In the Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale by Geoffery Chaucer, it exemplifies the opposite of what women were during that time. Specifically in the Wifes long prologue, it discusses the Wife being married five times and how she got her way. The Wife was a very lustful person, and she used her body to…

In his analysis of Heywoods interludes, James C. Bryant observes that Heywood held up the mirror to reflect both nature and the times in which [he] wrote, repeatedly echo[ing] the opinions and sentiments of his varied audiences. However, a number of critics, including one Robert W. Bolwell, indirectly interprets this idea of Bryants as the…