Pardoner's Tale (Unit 2, Core-1, Odisha State Model Syllabus)
A study help video on Pardoner's Tale with Odia Explanations THE PARDONER’S TALE Prepared by Atmaprakash The ‘Pardoner’s Tale’ which makes today’s discussion is a tale from Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. 'The Canterbury Tales' is a collection of 24 stories that runs over 17000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work but it incorporates a wide sweep of English life by gathering a motley company together and letting each class of society tell his own favourite stories. In Chaucer, we find a strong adherence to realism. Mathew Arnold calls Chaucer the father of our splendid English poetry. In other words, we can say, The Canterbury Tales is a frame narrative in which the tales told by individual pilgrims are accommodated. The Pardoner’s Tale presents a thrilling tale of death and trickery. It is also an exemplum. Exempla are stories that illustrate a theme in preaching and t...