The Canterbury Tales: Tools Of The Trade
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Geoffrey Chaucer was a author of the 12th century. Chaucer is
known as the father of English poetry. He wrote Canterbury Tales which is
a collection of narrative short stories written in verse. "The Pardoners
Tale is among the more popular of these varied tales. It is told by a
pardoner who us ....
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.... pledging to each other to murder death. "Let
each of us hold up his hand to this false traitor Death. He that slays so
many shall be slain himself before nightfall."
In "The Pardoners Tale" personification is employed to make Death a
person instead of a process. Death is given human characteristics to make
him more real to us. This tool allows the main characters to focus their
feelings.With the use of personification the three men are allowed to
focus their feelings of vengence on a pers ....
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