Who are the three young rioters looking for and Why? Death , because they are angry about their friend who recently passed away. In "The Pardoner's Tale ," three young men , or "rioters," overhear a funeral procession and learn that a friend of theirs has just died.
On their quest to kill Death, they are told that Death is sitting under a nearby tree. What event prompts the three rioters to seek Death?
The death of an old friend of theirs prompts the three rioters to seek Death , also hearing stories of Death killing many people in different villages. All three indulge in and represent the vices against which the Pardoner has railed in his Prologue: Gluttony, Drunkeness, Gambling, and Swearing.
These traits define the three and eventually lead to their downfall. In other words, he sends them to a place where they find death or death finds them. What happens to the rioters? They find treasure, but they all become very selfish and decide that no one wants to split the gold. The rioters try to kill each other so one eventually tries to have the gold all to himself, but they end up all killing each other and no one gets the money.
The tale refers to death as the person responsible for slaughtering one thousand by his hand during the plague line Death is personified as a thief who pierces the heart of his victims.
This was an iconographic image of death throughout the middle ages and later. Why is the old man unhappy when the rioters meet him? Use one detail from the poem to support your answer. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser.
For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. The Old Man the Three Rioters meet on their way to find Death is one of Chaucer's most ambiguous and mysterious characters. He is shrunken and wrinkled, and he begs Death to free him from his body, which is slowly wasting away. Yet despite having knocked on the door of Mother Earth, pleading with her to accept his body, he's condemned to wander the earth until God decides to take mercy and end his life.
The second rioter agrees, and they prepare their trap. Back in town, the youngest vagrant is having similar thoughts. He could easily be the richest man in town, he realizes, if he could have all the gold to himself. He goes to the apothecary and buys the strongest poison available, then puts the poison into two bottles of wine, leaving a third bottle pure for himself.
He returns to the tree, but the other two rioters leap out and kill him. Within minutes, they lie dead next to their friend. Thus, concludes the Pardoner, all must beware the sin of avarice, which can only bring treachery and death. He realizes that he has forgotten something: he has relics and pardons in his bag.
According to his custom, he tells the pilgrims the value of his relics and asks for contributions—even though he has just told them the relics are fake.
He offers the Host the first chance to come forth and kiss the relics, since the Host is clearly the most enveloped in sin The Host and Pardoner kiss and make up, and all have a good laugh as they continue on their way. We know from the General Prologue that the Pardoner is as corrupt as others in his profession, but his frankness about his own hypocrisy is nevertheless shocking. He bluntly accuses himself of fraud, avarice, and gluttony—the very things he preaches against.
And yet, rather than expressing any sort of remorse with his confession, he takes a perverse pride in the depth of his corruption. His boasts about his corruption may represent his attempt to cover up his doubts or anxieties about the life of crime in the name of religion that he has adopted. It is possible to argue that the Pardoner sacrifices his own spiritual good to cure the sins of others.
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