The Moral Superiority of Chaucer's Pardoner.
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell, Charles.
The Moral Superiority of Chaucer's Pardoner.
- Published
- College English 27 (1966): 437-44.
- Description
- Asks why the Pardoner "always preaches against his own sin" and why he admits to doing so to the Canterbury pilgrims, using the questions to argue that he is a con-man rather than a hypocrite, and one who considers himself morally superior to his members of his audience who, as "self-hypocrites" who "want it both ways," fall victim to him, the "unhypocritical emblem of hypocrisy."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale