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Essay Galaxy - Irony in "The Pardoners Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
Irony in "The Pardoners Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
Irony is the general name given to literary techniques that involve
surprising, interesting,or amusing contradictions. 1 Two stories that
serve as excellent demonstrations of irony are The Pardoners Tale and
The Nun's Priest's Tale, both from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Although these two stories are very different, they both use irony to teach
a lesson.
Of the stories, The Pardoners Tale displays the most irony.
First and foremost, the entire telling of the story is ironic, considering
just who is the teller. The Pardoner uses this story to speak out against
many social problems, all of which he himself is guilty of. He preaches
about drunkenness, while he is drunk, blasphemy, as he attempts to sell
fake religious relics, and greed, when he himself is amazingly gr....
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