Religion In The Pardoner's Tale Essay
The main religion in the middle ages was Catholicism. During the Middle Ages many people would pay for their salvation. “The Pardoner’s Tale”, which is written by Geoffrey Chaucer , illustrates the effect of religion and common sense, people were so gullible to rely on educated people during the middle ages which reflected their culture.
In the Middle Ages, the society was really reliable on the Catholic Church and the people who could interpret the word of God. During this time, people were not as educated as today, so they could not read the Bible they would just listen. The society believed that they could pay their salvation to Heaven and this was known as indulgences. The people thought they could sin all they wanted to since they had …show more content…
His personality is really selfish and he speaks the “truth” during his tales. Since the Pardoner could read the Bible he would outsmart the society and the church while steer them to give him profit. “The Pardoner said that he preaches for greed and gain of profit”(Chaucer 1-2). One of the Pardoner's tales that he preached was about how death manipulated three brothers to be greedy and end up murdering each other. When he was done preaching the tale that was the right moment to sale his indulgence to the audience since he had their attention. Since most of the crowed believed on indulgences they purchased it. The Pardoner is supposed to give the money that he earned to the church that is what we thought that he would do. But, since he was really greedy he would keep it and wast it. This shows the kind of person he truly is when it comes up to money and honesty. He is not a good reputation to the church ,but yet again the church is not all that honest as well during this time period.
“The Pardoner’s Tale”, which is written by Geoffrey Chaucer , illustrates the effect of religion and common sense because people were so gullible to rely on educated people during the middle ages which reflected their culture. This also demonstrated how the pardoner had the power to manipulate the society to buy his indulgences and the image he had on the church and the
In the Middle Ages, the society was really reliable on the Catholic Church and the people who could interpret the word of God. During this time, people were not as educated as today, so they could not read the Bible they would just listen. The society believed that they could pay their salvation to Heaven and this was known as indulgences. The people thought they could sin all they wanted to since they had …show more content…
His personality is really selfish and he speaks the “truth” during his tales. Since the Pardoner could read the Bible he would outsmart the society and the church while steer them to give him profit. “The Pardoner said that he preaches for greed and gain of profit”(Chaucer 1-2). One of the Pardoner's tales that he preached was about how death manipulated three brothers to be greedy and end up murdering each other. When he was done preaching the tale that was the right moment to sale his indulgence to the audience since he had their attention. Since most of the crowed believed on indulgences they purchased it. The Pardoner is supposed to give the money that he earned to the church that is what we thought that he would do. But, since he was really greedy he would keep it and wast it. This shows the kind of person he truly is when it comes up to money and honesty. He is not a good reputation to the church ,but yet again the church is not all that honest as well during this time period.
“The Pardoner’s Tale”, which is written by Geoffrey Chaucer , illustrates the effect of religion and common sense because people were so gullible to rely on educated people during the middle ages which reflected their culture. This also demonstrated how the pardoner had the power to manipulate the society to buy his indulgences and the image he had on the church and the