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Paying close attention to the passage, comment on what insights this offers into the Pardoner's concerns and methods - (The Pardoner's Prologue, lines 141-176).
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Paying close attention to the passage, comment on what insights this offers into the Pardoner's concerns and methods. (The Pardoner's Prologue, lines 141-176) In this passage, we are introduced to the Pardoner's motivations in tricking people, how he tricks people and his corrupted nature. Through this, we are given insights into the Pardoner's concerns, that of his trade and the idea of sin. We also gain an insight on the Pardoner's method of performance. One of the insights we gain through the Pardoner's description of his job in the passage is on the theme of hypocrisy. The Pardoner says here, "kan I preche again that same vice/ Which that I use, and that is avarice". From this, we see how illogical it is for someone to be criticising about the extreme love for money when he himself is obsessed with amassing a large amount of wealth. It shows...
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