Salvation, Damnation and the Role of the Old Man in the "'Pardoner's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Dean, Christopher.
Salvation, Damnation and the Role of the Old Man in the "'Pardoner's Tale."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968):44-49.
- Description
- Treats the Old Man of PardT as the "total opposite" of the three revelers: he "embodies or manifests . . . in some manner Christian goodness." He first offers to the revelers a merciful "way to salvation," but when they "flatly reject" it, he justly sends them "to their fully-merited punishment," damnation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale