Pardoner

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character in The Canterbury Tales fictional character literary character

The Pardoner is a corrupt, hypocritical seller of indulgences and religious relics in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, notorious for preaching against greed while embodying it himself.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
The Pardoner	1
the Pardoner	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	character in The Canterbury Tales ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ
appearsIn	The Canterbury Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pardoner's Prologue NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pardoner's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWork	The Pardoner's Prologue NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pardoner's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ
centralThemeOfTaleHeTells	greed leads to death ⓘ
characterTrait	corrupt ⓘ cynical ⓘ effeminate ⓘ eloquent ⓘ hypocritical ⓘ manipulative ⓘ
confessesIn	The Pardoner's Prologue NERFINISHED ⓘ
confessesTo	preaching only for money ⓘ selling false relics ⓘ
createdBy	Geoffrey Chaucer NERFINISHED ⓘ
deceives	laypeople ⓘ
firstAppearance	The Canterbury Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ
genreOfWorkHeTells	exemplum ⓘ
languageOfWork	Middle English ⓘ
literaryFunction	dramatic irony ⓘ satire of medieval Church practices ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ
moralThemeEmbodied	corruption in the Church ⓘ greed ⓘ hypocrisy ⓘ
motivatedBy	greed ⓘ love of money ⓘ
motto	Radix malorum est cupiditas ⓘ
mottoLanguage	Latin ⓘ
narrates	The Pardoner's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationalityInFiction	English ⓘ
occupation	pardoner ⓘ seller of indulgences ⓘ seller of religious relics ⓘ
pilgrimGroup	Canterbury pilgrims ⓘ
preachesAgainst	avarice ⓘ cupidity ⓘ greed ⓘ
relationshipToHost	rebuked by the Host ⓘ
religiousRole	clergy ⓘ
symbolizes	abuse of religious authority ⓘ ecclesiastical corruption ⓘ
timeOfCreation	late 14th century ⓘ
uses	fake relics ⓘ forged papal bulls ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Host Harry Bailly → interactsWith → Pardoner ⓘ

The Pardoner's Tale → narrator → Pardoner ⓘ

this entity surface form: the Pardoner

Chaucer the pilgrim → associatedWithCharacter → Pardoner ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Pardoner