Chaucer's Christian Irony: The Relationship of Character and Action in the "Pardoner'sTale."
- Author / Editor
- Toole, William B.
Chaucer's Christian Irony: The Relationship of Character and Action in the "Pardoner'sTale."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 3.1 (1968): 37-43.
- Description
- Describes how the "tavern vices" of PardT (gluttony, blasphemy, gambling) "delineate the characters" of the three revelers and reveal their stupid and immoral inability to recognize the literal and the figurative meanings of death, properly understood by the boy and the Old Man. Ironically, the "unholy trinity" of revelers belies Christian brotherhood and inverts Christ's redemption.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale