'We wol sleen this false traytor Deeth': The Search for Immortality in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale' and J. K. Rowling's 'The Deathly Hallows'
- Author / Editor
- Gulley, Alison.
'We wol sleen this false traytor Deeth': The Search for Immortality in Chaucer's 'Pardoner's Tale' and J. K. Rowling's 'The Deathly Hallows'
- Published
- Studies in Medievalism 23 (2014): 189-204.
- Description
- Starting with the clear similarity between PardT and the tale of "The Three Brothers" in the last of the Harry Potter books, argues that the series as a whole, like CT, is "framed by death," and by the fear of spiritual death. The terrible condition of the Old Man in PardT, all but dead yet unable to die, has its counterpart in the self-imposed sufferings of Rowling's Voldemort in his attempts to defeat death.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion