Compare and Contrast Pardoner’s Tale and Wife of Bath

Amanda Padron November 19, 2012 Period 2 The Canterbury Tales Essay Geoffery Chaucer wrote twenty-four tales but the to the highest degree noniceable of these twenty-four tales are The Pardoners Tale and The married woman Of cans Tale. The Wife of Baths Tale is the more likely candidate to win against The Pardoners Tale in the morality side. The reason her tale has morality is the goodness of the poor and broken. erst her story is near its end and the knight, her protagonist, is face to face with the old woman, the antagonist, the wifes means becomes clear.The very first of her ideas is that gentleness, the most prized quality by the upper class, does non come from the class that someone is born into but rather their choices. In The Pardoners Tale the excuser sells the churchs pardons to people who have sinned and incurk absolution. He excessively preaches against sins, mostly avarice. Ironically, in the prologue to his tale, he admits being shamed of that sin and is kinda proud of it. His tale is also ab come forward greed in it, closing takes three greedy men to their early graves. The more you compare and telephone circuit them the more you realize they have in common.Both tales scam people out of their money and status, and they both do this through appealing to others ill-doing. The wife of tub tells her first few husbands how badly they treated her when they were drunk. While the excuser bring forths sermons on how the root of all evil is desire, and since desire is an emotion everyone feels, everyone feels guilty of his allegations. The pardoner never really tried to validate his actions. He did give a short little speech in which he fundamentally said that other people were scamming other people so why non him but that was it.The wife of bath on the other authorize gave a huge speech on why what she did was acceptable. So the wife of bath must have felt a little guilt because she felt like she had to defend her actions. Then the wife o f bath wins on the fact that deep down she seems to be searching for something real. The pardoner may want something like that as well but he does not prove or show that he does. We can clearly see that the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath both present a upbraiding of the church of the time.The Pardoner wasnt exactly a respected thought because they would guilt you into buying a artifact from them to pardon your sins. Basically the reprehension here is the whole idea of pedaling spurt relics and convincing sinners to buy the fake relics. The Wife of Bath presents an idea that women of the world should have the same rights, powers, and privileges as men, which was a bad idea to do back then. The way instal narrative is used here is so that the characters and the narrator is talking close isnt directly Chaucers ideas.The second thing they have in common is that they both have no problem with their way of thinking. more or less people have ideas and things they want to express but they do not want to for fear. In conclusion, every one has their own view mind on both tales and have different opinions. My opinion is that The Wife of Bath has a better story to tell as well as a better moral story at the end since she admits to her faults and accepts responsibility. The pardoner is self fish and rude in my eyes and also in a lot of peoples eyes.