Setting: Title: The Pardoner’s Tale Main Characters:
Late 14th century, On Plot Summary The Pardoner, the Three
Pilgrimage from London to Revelers, the Old Man, Death
Beginning Action:
Canterbury, England;
Flanders; a tavern; morning; Three revelers gather in a tavern
a village; and a tree in the one morning, where they see a
grove. corpse go by.
Description about the main
Rising Action: characters:
Description on the setting: The Three Rioters swear a pact of -The Pardoner is a
brotherhood and make a plan to kill representative of the Church
The pilgrims in Chaucer's Death in revenge for all the murders who's authorized to go around
tales are traveling in the he's committed. selling relics and pardons for
spring of some year in the forgiveness of sin.
late 14th century. They meet Climax:
up in a lively Inn in -The three rioters are the
The Three Rioters meet an Old Man epitome of wickedness
Southwark, outside London,
on the road who tells them they can
on their way to Canterbury -The old man is the vehicle in
find Death. The Rioters arrive at the
to visit the relics of Saint the story to teach them the
grove and find eight bushels of gold;
Thomas Becket. The lesson about greed that leads to
they decide to keep it all for
Pardoner's actual Tale takes their deaths.
themselves, waiting for nightfall to
place in Flanders, in Belgium.
carry it off to one of their homes.
It begins in a tavern. They are -Death have killed many people
in the bar and drinks before Falling Action: and the three men went to find
9. him to pay for the murders he
Two of the Rioters plan to kill the committed.
other upon his return so that they
only have to split the gold two ways. Protagonist:
Meanwhile, the other one buys a
The Three Revelers
Mood created by bottle of poison and doses his
the setting: friends' bottles of wine with it, Antagonist:
hoping to have all the gold for
Tense/suspenseful himself. Death
Resolution:
The two rioters stab their friend to
death when he returns to the grove.
They sit down to eat and drink, and
end up drinking the poisoned wine
and dying horrible deaths. The
Pardoner curses the sins that
showed up in the Tale, then laments
that mankind acts so falsely and
Literary devices
unnaturally toward God, to whom
used by the author:
they owe an everlasting debt for
Imagery (Death), creating them and redeeming them
Allusion, symbolism from Hell.
Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer (Retold by Eva
March Tappan)
Narrator’s Point of View
First person/Third Person
Point of View- In the
prologue, he narrates it in
the first person. When he
launches into the narration
of the tale proper, the
narrative voice shifts to a
third person.
Author’s Tone
expressed through
the Narrator:
Sanctimonious,
Emphatic, Humorous
