ENG110Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indulgence
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The pardoner is a liar they tell faulshoods that let the reader know so it"s a game, medivale writers were worried about doing this in their stories, They ask the pardoner not to give them a bad story as they want something with wisdom. Pardiners were church officials they had licenses to preach or listen to conffessions for a price, Begins the tale with a small prolog he introced the theme, it describes himself as he strives for greed. He knows and delights in the fact that he is lying. Pg 32 old people like old tales, and the narrator is telling the audience that the normal group that they are smarter then the older audience. Talks about sins and how they do people drink and become drunk and rants about alcohol. He is framing in the beginning to help people inturprite his tale. Great readers leave lots of room to make many assumptions and interpritations.
