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A 6 page paper which analyzes an essay
regarding Chaucer's Pardoner. The essay is titled "Chaucer's Pardoner: His Sexuality and
Modern Critics," and is written by C. David Benson. No additional sources cited.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAchcprd.rtf
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who conjures up images of an individual whose sexuality is in question. Benson claims that there are many arguments which state that the Pardoner was a homosexual or a eunuch.
Benson, therefor, takes it upon himself to discredit those arguments, scientifically, stating that all such arguments are mere speculation and generally unfounded. In the following paper we present an analysis
of Bensons essay, supporting his arguments. Chaucers Pardoner Benson begins his essay by stating that "The outrageous Pardoner has often seemed among the most real of Chaucers pilgrims
in the Canterbury Tales. Although only a few have thought him an actual portrait from life, the majority of modern critics has believed in the essential truth of the characterization"
(337). In this he is presenting us with a subtle, yet powerful, comment on the character of the Pardoner. We can see that he is essentially informing us that the
Pardoner is nothing but a fictional character and perhaps not due the attention he has been receiving. He is subtly illustrating that while Chaucer created an intriguing and "real" character,
he was also merely a character and not one that should be overanalyzed in the manner which many have undertaken. This is further emphasized when Bensons claims the following: "The
various critical re-creations of the Pardoner tend to be ingenious, and most are interesting, but they are also overly subjective because they rest on little actual evidence in the text.
Perhaps even more dangerous is the often unexamined assumption that since the Pardoner is a vivid, truly flamboyant presence in the Canterbury Tales, he can therefore be analyzed as though
he were a real person instead of a fictional, even allegorical character" (337). At this point in the essay we are unsure of what Benson may be getting at,
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