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This 4 page paper discusses Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale, focusing on the character of 'the old man' who points out Death. Examples, analysis given. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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about the wages of sin. Of course, this is the purpose of the tale as it is shared by the pardoner. Interestingly enough, though this tale is about the three
friends, none of them is very well developed, and remain underdeveloped until their timely demise. However, the figure of The Old Man, whom they pass on their way to find
Death, is developed into a character from which one might gain some insight. The entire tale is a tale of greed and avarice, and the pardoner wastes no words on
proclaiming the ills of sin. The pardoner, of course, is hoping to make the tale frightening enough so that his fellow travelers will buy absolution from him once they have
reached Canterbury. Whether he is successful or not, the reader is not told, but the end of the tale shows that the travelers are quite the canny lot and waste
no time in telling the Pardoner that he is an old wind bag. The Tale itself revolves around the plight of five men. Three men are drinking buddies and are
generally up to no good thing. They are, in fact carousing when they notice that another friend of theirs has been killed. When they ask how he died, they are
told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to where Death lives and
start out for the edge of town. The last man of whom the tale includes is the fifth man, The Old Man. He points them in the direction of Deaths
door and laments the fact that Death will not take him. The old man is described in a type of detail that the other characters are not. The old man
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