The Magna Mater Archetype in "The Pardoner's Tale."

Author / Editor
Todd, Robert E.

Title
The Magna Mater Archetype in "The Pardoner's Tale."

Published
Literature and Psychology 15 (1965): 32-40.

Description
Investigates the "Great Mother" archetype in PardT 6.729-31, helping to explain the "primal force" of the Old Man in the Tale, his womb / tomb affiliations with the young tavern boy, and the "Tale's central image of the tree" as "ambivalent mother."

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale