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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous work, The Canterbury Tales, he points out many inherent flaws of human nature, all of which still apply today. In the phrase, “avarice is the root of all evil” (Hopper, 343), one can fail to realize the truth in this ....

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.... descriptive General Prologue of the character’s, the Pardoner is described in very unflattering terms. Chaucer states that he “had hair as yellow as wax....Hung down thinly…But sparsely it lay, by shreds here and there” (Hopper, 343). Also, described in the General Prologue the Pardoner is described as a “gelding or a mare” (Hopper, 44), the Pardoner is presented as apparently lacking the male sexual organs that would “allow him to assume a straightforward gender identity” (Patterson, 371). The general tone of the description paints a picture of the Pardoner as corrupt and slimy from the very beginni ....