Pardoner

Pardoner

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Hello! I am Allen Stanford, a financier. In Chaucer’s //Canterbury Tales// I was the Pardoner. My family and I are members of the business/professional class. I recently took part in a scheme that robbed many people of roughly 9 million dollars. I was a well known Philanthropist in my community and I really cared about my friends and family. I never realized I could get caught. I always thought I was one step ahead of everyone else. I have a way of always getting what I want and manipulating the people around me for my benefit. When my clients raised concern about some of their investments I lied and told them that everything was in order. I’m going on a trip with my family and many others—including my business partners—to Cuba because the US government is out looking for us.

**Use Textual Evidence to Support ** ||  || Your Modern Character || ||  The Pardoner ||  Greedy Financier (Allen Stanford) || 
 *  || Character in Chaucer’s Prologue
 * Profession and Name:

|| Religious |||| Upper Class, Professional Middle-Class (earned a college degree), Skilled middle –class, working class, etc. (you can add your own class if needed) Professional Middle-Class ||
 * Their Class:  || feudal, urban, or religious
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Physical Description:

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">“Hair as yellow as wax” line 695

“Bulging eye-balls like a hare” line 704

“He has a small voice a goat has got.” line 708

“His chin no beard had harbored, nor would harbor.” line 709

“Down to his shoulders which they overspread/Thinly they fell, like rat-tails, one by one.” line 698

“But for a little cap his head was bare…He’d sewed a holy relic on his cap” line 703

“He loudly sang “//Come hither, love, come home!//” (awful singer) line 692 |||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Dark, greasy, slicked back hair; little mustache

Expensive suit

Old and wrinkly

Well groomed

|| What kind of person is he/she?
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Description of Personality:

<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Selfish (motives are personal gain)

Liar: “For in his trunk he had a pillow-case/Which he asserted was Our Lady’s veil.” Line 714

Conceited- thinks he is a good singer

Religious- but maybe just for the money: “And (well he could) win silver from the crowd/That’s why he sang so merrily and loud.” Line 733

|||| <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Selfish

Lies at all costs for money

Conceited- lies and tricks people and thinks he is never going to get caught

Has a way with people- outgoing but his motive is personal gain.

Obnoxiously self-assured || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Chaucer has a negative view of the Pardoner.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Chaucer’s Opinion of the Character: Does he have a positive or negative view of the character? Be careful of his sarcasm!

|||| <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Explain how this modern equivalent would fit the positive or negative view. <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Chaucer would still have a negative view of the financier because he is as greedy and conceited as the Pardoner. || || <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Statement asserting the characterization: <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">The Pardoner is a dishonest, conceited, greasy man. |||| <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Justification for why this character is the modern equivalent of Chaucer’s character: <span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Stanford is conceited like the Pardoner—he tricked people out of millions of dollars and thought he was never going to get caught. He is also just as greedy for wealth and his motive is always personal gain.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif';">Statement/Justification:

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 * __ Voki Justification: __**
 * ** Aspect on your Voki Modern Character ** || ** The Reason/Justification for that choice: How does that help communicate the character? ** ||
 * ** Background: Cityscape **
 * Outfit: suit **
 * Hair: dark, greasy **
 * Mouth: small, mean looking **
 * Bling: sunglasses **
 * Head size: large **
 * Voice: small and girly **

|| ** Background: City because our character is rich and lives in the city. **
 * Outfit: Suit because it shows how much money he has and because he is a businessman. **
 * Hair: Dark and greasy because our character is sleazy and slick. **
 * Mouth: Small and frowning because he didn’t tell anyone the truth or anything about his scheme. **
 * Bling: He is wearing sunglasses because he is very shady and mysterious. **
 * Head size: Our character has a big head because he’s very conceited. **
 * Voice: His voice is small and girly because that’s how the Pardoner’s is. ** ||

<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">**__Explore the Other Characters__**:(**Fill in below for THREE characters)** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> Name of the Character 1: Doctor

What you learned about the character: He is a doctor without a good set of morals. He cares more about money then his patients or people. But he still takes great pride in what he does.

How would your character react to this character. Explain WHY. I believe that our character would get along with this character. i believe that they would possibly even be friends. i can picture them working together in the hopes of making lots of money and not really caring who they hurt.

Name of the Character 2: Miller

What you learned about the character: He sells drugs and likes to make tons of money. He is a loner and only cares about himself. He doesn't really care about anyone else.

How would your character react to this character. Explain WHY. They would get along very well. They would be friends and probably run a sort of scam together to get tons of money.

Name of the Character 3: Franklin

What you learned about the character: He is very generous and takes people in when they have no place to live. People trust him very much and he cares for everyone equally.

How would your character react to this character. Explain WHY.
 * They wouldn't get along. Franklin would see Allen as a bad man. They are the polar opposites of each other.**