Comparing Beowulf And The Pardoner's Tale

Everything has a meaning and a lesson behind it so of course the literature and the old English stories has a wise and meaningful lessons behind them to be taught. For example,

Beowulf teach the readers how to be brave, loyal, and strong while the pardoner from the canterbury tale teach the readers do not be gready. Also the wife of bath tale teach the reader how to respect women and how to treat them and how to be a gentleman and be thankful for what the one have.

Beowulf is a figure for the people of his era to teach their sons how to live their lives being brave, loyal and strong. “...Would sail across the sea to Hrothgar, Now when help was needed.” (Line 115-116 page 42) These lines shows that Beowulf is so brave that he went to another country to help it’s citizens when they needed help.

This teaches the readers of the story that if help is needed no matter where it is they need to go and help. Also the story of Beowulf teach the readers to be loyal and strong no matter what.”... he who gave us these swords and armor: all of us swore to repay him,...” (Line 710-711 page 61) This speech was given by Wiglaf to the Soldiers who left Beowulf burn to death. Wiglaf is teaching not only the soldiers who ran away from the dragon, but also the reader to be loyal to their king and country and everyone in their lives “...I’d rather burn myself than see flames swirling around my lord.” ( Line 726-727 page 61) . Here the story is educating the readers to be strong and stand up for the people who can’t stand up for themselves, and again it tell the readers to be loyal to others.
In the prologue of the Pardoner’s tale it says “...

I mean to have money, wool and cheese and wheat though it were given me by the poorest lad or poorest village widow, though she has a string starving children…” ( Line 44-47, Page 168) . The pardone here tell the reader how greedy he and how he does not care where his money or food come from all he care about is that he has money and food. Yet after what the pardoner say that he teacher his audience and the reader not to greedy. “ Why make a sermon of it? why waste breath? exactly in the way they’d planned his death they fell on him and slew him, two to one… He took a bottle full of poison up and drank; and his companion, nothing loth, drank from it also, and they perished both.” (Line 280-289, Page 175). The Pardoner’s tale is teaching the readers about not being greedy by telling a story about what money and greediness can do when it comes between people, they can kill each other for it. Like the three men who were planning on kill the youngest of them so they can have the money divided on the both of the only, while the youngest man was getting poison to kill the two of them so he can have all they money for

himself.
Last but not least the wife of bath tale teach the readers the most basic rules of life. For example “A woman wants the self-same sovereignty over her husband as over her lover, and master him; he must not be above her.” (Line 214-216, Page 186) The story here is telling and teaching the reader about what it is that women desire most and want all the time. The story does not only teach the reader that but it teach the reader that being a gentleman is not something that men inherit from their fathers it is a lifestyle “ But gentleness, as you will recognize, is not annexed in nature to possessions;...” (Line 322-323, Page 190). The story also teach the readers that compromising is so important between the husband and the wife and they always show do what is best for both of them.
Old literature is very important because it teaches the one a very wiseful lessons on how to be brave, strong and loyal like Beowulf, how to not be selfish and greedy like the men in the pardoner's tale, and how to treat a lady in the wife of bath's tale.