Chaucer
The Pardoner's Tale relates to the Bible and to Christian faith. Chaucer tells a story that deals with good and evil, or life and death. He uses the old man to symbolize the death and evil that walks next to us in our everyday lives. If anyone should come across the old man and not recognize who he is, he/she will be led down a crooked and sinful path into death or hell. The story begins with three riders that ask a boy what had happened to a man that had just died. The boy responds, "There came a sneaking thief that men call Death, who slays all the people in this country, and with his spear he struck his heart in two, then went on his way without saying another word" (The Pardoner's Tale, Ln.380-381). The riders are furious and pledge to kill death. "Let each of us hold up his hand to this Death. He who slays so many shall be slain before nightfall (The Pardoner's Tale, Ln.384-385.). Out of emotion, they set out to take vengeance on something that is out of their hands. However, the men do mean well. They know and understand what right from wrong, but they just are not prepared to take on death.On their journey, the three men come across an old man. They ask him a few
Not even death alas, will have my life. They immediately forget what they were going to do in the first place, which was kill death. The tree may represent the tree in the garden of Eden. In the Pardoner's Tale, death is represented in the form of a person. The riders rudely ask him where they can find Death. He refers to the earth as his mother which may mean that mother nature is his mother. So everyone plots to kill everyone, and they all die, and the gold remains. 7 Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, arose a mother in Israel". Thus, I walk like a restless prisoner, and on the ground, which is my mother's gate. The path that the old man tricked the three riders to go down is crooked. Chaucer is, in a biblical way, trying to tell us that death is among us all.
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