Examples Of Personification In The Pardoner's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer's most famous work was The Canterbury Tales, which includes "The Pardoner's Tale". The tale is about twenty- nine pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, while on their journey to Canterbury each pilgrim had to tell a story in order to win a feast. "The Pardoner's Tale" was about three men, all going to search for Death to kill him because he killed one of their comrades. After finally finding Death, they didn't find him the way they thought they were, " there came a privy thief, they call him death, who kills us all round here, and in a breath, he spread him through the heart". The author uses personification and irony on Death, three men go out looking and ironically they all died. Irony is an outcome of events contrary to what

The overall irony in the tale, the pilgrims were so confident in killing Death due to the fact that he killed one of their partners, but at the end of the tale all of them died. Personification is the representation of thing or abstraction in form of a person, such as art. In "The Pardoner's Tale", death is used as an example of personification. "He's killed a thousand in the present plague". Death has also been described as a person, but death is an it. Death has also been given human qualities when they say they are going to kill him, but the audience knowing that he's not a living thing, death never once has a pulse therefore he cannot be killed ever! This story is full on irony... The youngest was stabbed when he returned, the other men drank the poisoned bottled, never knowing that what they were looking for. Stated in the tale, " thus these two men murdered received their due, so did the treacherous young poisoner too..." Guessing that it could be argued that Death was the elder man in the tale, taking the men to their death beds, but nevertheless at the end of the tale, all the pilgrims died. In "Pardoner's Tale" twenty-nine pilgrims go out in search for