How Does Chaucer Use Satire In The Pardoner's Tale

In the three readings, Pardoner’s Prologue, Pardoner’s Tale and Wife of Bath's Tale Chaucer uses satire. Satire is another word for sarcasm. He displays several accounts of sarcasm throughout all three of them. In the Pardoner’s Tale, that is where he displays his satire of the church. In Pardoner’s Prologue he critiques the patriarchy. And finally in Wife of Bath's Tale, he attacks the class. Chaucer will use satire to address three different sacred institutions, the critique of the church, the patriarchy and the attack on the class. To begin, Chaucer will critique the church. Chaucer’s creation to show the hypocrisy of the church begins to be the main plot in the Pardoner’s Tale. He goes on to say that preaching is a game, where the purpose

In the Pardoner’s Prologue he critiques the patriarchy in different ways. Each character in the story always introduces himself before they tell their story (tale). He then again goes on to say that the preachers continue to preach the game rather than to have no game at all. The sermons and the tales always seem to have the same text, which then leads to the freeing of the pelf (pouch). Greed equals cupidity, which means money wanters. Chaucer says how all that everyone wants is money, which makes them greedy and makes them become apart of the group known as cupidity. A quote from Chaucer in the Pardoner’s Prologue: “Out come the pence, and specially for myself, for my exclusive purpose is to win”. This is a direct quote from the text stating that all that anyone wants is money, and that they will do whatever it takes to obtain

Chaucer has an attack on the patriarchy. Men are said to have more value than women. Which then leads to the great chain of value. In the order of power: gods, men, women, slaves and donkeys. Women are at the bottom under men and gods, but at the same level as the slaves and the donkeys. Men’s organic view is nature. They become crazy because they think that they can change the nature,( change what has to be done, and what the future holds). There is also many men that have atheism in their lives (not believing in God). Which men who are like that are dangerous because they believe no one is above them, which leads to a very physical and dangerous man. Women have no voice in this society, yet they always get what they want in some way or another, because they always win the mind game with the men. All women know what men don’t know, Women turn things around on men when they are wrong. Women run the world, just not all men know that yet because women let men think that they run the world in order to let them think they have the