The Pardoner's Bid for Existence
- Author / Editor
- Condren, Edward I.
The Pardoner's Bid for Existence
- Published
- Viator 4 (1973): 177-205.
- Description
- Reads PardPT for the ways they reveal more about the Pardoner than he intends. The Old Man shows the pain of the Pardoner's "joyless existence," even though he has attempted to disguise it in his Prologue; the rioters reveal his obsession with death and its "moral consequences for him." Hungry for approval, the Pardoner is rejected by the Host who does not recognize his effort to "replace morality with art," another indication of the Pardoner's failure.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale