Part one of term paper
The Pardoners tale sheds much light on the conduct and thought of people in the dark ages, especially the menaces of society. This story reveals much about the morals, laws, and conventions in place during the dark ages. Even though the focus is on three drunken criminals, their encounters and conduct give clues as to what their society was u ...

Part two of term paper
... of the story shows us that there are a great number of deaths in the town, and each time a death occurred it was indicated by a “hand-bell clink” from the church. This shows that something was killing off the citizens, and since most deaths back then occurred because of the Black Death, that was what it probably was. Later on in the story the rioters speak of being hung if they took the large sum of money home, because “People would call us robbers—a strong gang”. This shows how eas ...