Part one of term paper
In "The Prologue" from The Canterbury, by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Pardoner rides with the Summoner to the Canterbury Cathedral. As a member of the clergy, the Pardoner appears to be a religious man. Through a respectful, yet condescending tone, concentrations of descriptions, religious diction, and order of appearance, Chaucer depicts the Pa ...

Part two of term paper
... "no hood upon his head" is next (695-696,700). He rode "in the latest mode," expressing that he wants to be high in fashion with the time (702). More description of his head, "a little cap, …bulging eyeballs," with a holy relic on his cap," stress the face of the Pardoner (703-704,705). Descriptions of the "holy relics" follow and show that he is actually a fraud. Drawing "more than the parson in a month or two" and singing "an Offertory" the best, reveals his greed and self-indulgence with ...