The Pardoner In The Canterbury Tales

In The Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner has long greasy hair yellow as wax. He has no beard, over-spread shoulders and bulging eyeballs. He is confused on his sexuality, wether he is a male, female, or a mix. He is a successful Pardon at an Athenian Church. A pardoner sells paper pardons that entitles people forgiveness of their sins. He stays faithful to his holiness. He preaches sermons and remembered them by heart, he sang out loud in Church and received official letters from the Pope to continue his Pardon work. He seemed passionate about his profession. The Pardoner’s sermons are always based on one thing, “the love of money is the root of evil”. The Pardoner carries around fake relics that promises the people of the Church that it can save them from sin. This contributes to the Pardoner’s personality.

He has no intentions of saving people from their sins and replenishing them. He uses his holiness as a disguise for money. Singing in church, preaching and becoming a Pardoner is all done just to make people believe he is a holy man in hopes of them participating in his work. The relics he carries around are fake and claims they are the veil of Mary and a piece of St. Peter’s sail. He lies to church members about the promise of cleansed souls through the relics, yet he knows will not work. He uses innocent people for their money and has no shame or guilt doing so. The Pardoner is not a true spiritual man and abuses his authority through his lies. He is not the most trustworthy character in the