Chaucer's The Pardoner

“Chaucer’s Pardoner: A Character Sketch” Geoffrey Chaucer was a people watcher. During diplomatic errands throughout Europe, Geoffrey Chaucer learned about the people who surrounded him. This is what made it possible for him to write The Canterbury Tales. The Canterbury Tales were a collection of stories about a group of thirty people who are on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Chaucer intended that each person tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two …showed first 75 words of 626 total…

…showed last 75 words of 626 total…real. For example, instead of being a piece St. Peters sail, it was just an ordinary piece of cloth. Geoffrey Chaucer is a wonderful judge of character. Just by watching a person, he was able to make up wonderful tales about people’s lives with humor and a moral. Chaucer’s Pardoner was a wonderful character because he was truly evil in every way yet he thought of himself as a moral and good-hearted man.