Compare And Contrast The Wife Of Bath's Tale And The Pardoners Tale

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“The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” are just two of 21 tales from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales Not unlike the remaining 19 tales, “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” offer stories that serve both entertainment purposes and wise warnings against poor morale. The Pardoner offers warnings against one’s greed’s corruptive ways, while the Wife of Bath features a worthy lesson against the “correlation” of social standing and quality of a person’s character. It is not uncommon of early English literature to give important bits of wisdom; however, from its warnings against greed and pride, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales indeed shows that early English literature taught important bits of wisdom.