Putting Off the Old Man and Putting on the New: Ephesians 4:22-24 in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, and Dostoevsky
- Author / Editor
- Delasanta, Rodney.
Putting Off the Old Man and Putting on the New: Ephesians 4:22-24 in Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift, and Dostoevsky
- Published
- C&L 51 : 339-62, 2002.
- Description
- The metaphor in Eph. 4:22-24 of putting off old clothes and donning new ones influenced the use of this image in PardT, "King Lear," "Gulliver's Travels," and "The Brothers Karamazov." As the Pardoner's alter ego and a representation of human sinfulness, the Old Man in PardT cannot put off his "forwrappings" without putting on the "hayre clowt" of penitence, as we are reminded in ParsT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.