In the Canterbury Tales, both The Pardoner’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Tale are filled with irony and displays a deep message at the end of each. When it comes to the theme, The Pardoner’s Tale explains that the desire and greed for money are roots of all evil. The moral in The Wife of Bath’s tale conveys to not a judge a woman by their physical and outer beauty and their sense of moralities deeply rooted inside them. To begin with, it is ironic that pardoner tells a story with his moral because he admits in his prologue that e tricks people into giving him money and that is what he does professionally. The word “death” was emphasized in this story to tell that the three men found the gold are not loyal to each other. When the three men
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When the knight rapes the girl, (Maid) he feels terrible after marrying an old and unhappy woman. However, after she transformed into “a young and lovely woman, rich in charms, his heart went bathing in a bath of blisses and mated in a hundred thousand kisses” (line 430-433). The problem with this is that despite their “happy even after” moment, if the woman had not transformed there would not be that satisfaction and pleasure the knight derived from. This does not show the knight’s true love and gratitude for the old woman, and that he has just scratched the surface of really respecting woman and generalizing them into one category. However, “so they lived ever after to the end,” by the question of him loving his wife and being chivalrous to any women in general is still in doubt.
In conclusion, the theme of The Pardoner’s Tale is filled with irony and the fact that greed kills and is not the best personality to have. In The Wife of Bath’s Tale, it shows that it is not right to paint all women with a single brush and judge them by their outer beauty. In the end, these morals and life lessons is something readers and society can bounce back off
When the knight rapes the girl, (Maid) he feels terrible after marrying an old and unhappy woman. However, after she transformed into “a young and lovely woman, rich in charms, his heart went bathing in a bath of blisses and mated in a hundred thousand kisses” (line 430-433). The problem with this is that despite their “happy even after” moment, if the woman had not transformed there would not be that satisfaction and pleasure the knight derived from. This does not show the knight’s true love and gratitude for the old woman, and that he has just scratched the surface of really respecting woman and generalizing them into one category. However, “so they lived ever after to the end,” by the question of him loving his wife and being chivalrous to any women in general is still in doubt.
In conclusion, the theme of The Pardoner’s Tale is filled with irony and the fact that greed kills and is not the best personality to have. In The Wife of Bath’s Tale, it shows that it is not right to paint all women with a single brush and judge them by their outer beauty. In the end, these morals and life lessons is something readers and society can bounce back off