Satire in the pardoner's tale
assignment active
the role of a pardoner
in what way does the passage accurately represent
real medieval pardoners?
to start with, i declare where i've come from,
and then produce my certificates, one by one;
my licence with the seal of our lord bishop
which i show first-that's to protect myself
so that nobody, whether priest or cleric,
dares interdict me from christ's holy work.
the passage shows that pardoners often sold
indulgences for personal gain.
the passage shows that pardoners were not
allowed to sell relics.
the passage shows that pardoners were officially
authorized by the church.
the passage shows that pardoners had close
relationships with local priests.
-the canterbury tales,
geoffrey chaucer

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Discuss how social status may align with historical criticism.

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