Essential Question 6

Plenty of parallels can be drawn between the pardoner's prologue and his tale. One parallel between the prologue and tale would be how the Pardoner says that he sells fake relics for "pence, and specially for myself" (243), and in his tales, he warns those listening against such things as fraud which he is very guilty of. This tale is different from the others we have studied because of its theme. The knight's tale was one about honor and two lovesick knights. The miller's tale was about a strange love triangle, and the pardoner's tale was all about avoiding sin, especially greed. Another contrast to be made is that the knight's and miller's tales were told in third person and the pardoner's tale contained a mix of the first, second, and third person points of view. The knight's and miller's tales also do not contain any input from the teller, which the pardoner's tale is filled with input from the pardoner himself.