Honesty In The Pardoner

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Honesty, it is a word that many use to describe someone who is truthful and someone you can trust. Money is also a very strong word and a very powerful one, it causes wars, lies, and can make a lot of people happy. Honesty and money are two words to describe the Pardoner honesty is the opposite of the Pardoner’s character and money is an important word to the Pardoner. Honesty has attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straight forwardness, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft (Dictionary). Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere. The characteristics of honesty are the complete opposite of the Pardoner. The Pardoner is not honest at all, he is the complete opposite of honest. The Pardoner is a man …show more content…

The Pardoner does the opposite of that. When the Pardoner sells a pardon instead of giving the money to the church or donating it he keeps it for himself. This is totally against integrity and shows again why the Pardoner is not honest. Cheating is another word that is important with the word honesty because it is the opposite of it. To cheat someone is to wrong them with or without their knowledge. The Pardoner does this buy selling his so called “relics” when really they are just fake and he is just trying to get more money. As Chaucer (1476) himself said in the Pardoner’s prologue “he made the parson and the people his apes” (line 705). The Pardoner is a cheater and a scammer these are qualities that an honest person has, an example of an honest person is Abraham Lincoln, he was also sometimes referred to as “Honest Abe” or supposed honest …show more content…

Money is also what makes him evil and the complete opposite of honest. Money makes him lie to people so he can get more of it. It is like an alcoholics liquor. Money can be described fairly well from the Bible verse: 1 Timothy 6:10 - (n.d.) “For the love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.” This Bible verse explains how money can cause harm to both a person’s soul and to others. Money is the Pardoner’s pride and joy he often shows it by the way he dresses and by the way he talks. Honesty and money do not always go together well because money can cause a person to be

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