Compare contrast Essay The Canterbery tales The wife of baths and the Pardoner
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Compare/contrast Essay (The wife of baths and the Pardoner)
The prologue of the Canterbury Tales tells about characters that are traveling on a pilgrimage. There is a variety of people with different morals and ideas on this pilgrimage. The two that I thought would be good to write about are the wife of baths and the Pardoner. The wife of baths and the Pardoner have some similarities and differences, that are easy to describe and easily seen by the reader.
First let me talk about the appearance of both these characters, the wife of baths has an appearance of being very large "everything a bit too big." She was also very well dress she wears head coverings to Mass that the narrator guesses must weigh ten pound, then also she is deaf. Then the appearance of the Pardoner is that he has long, flowing, yellow hair and is beardless. It also states how the Pardoner as physically grotesque and disturbing, with he is oddly dressed. The narrator also mentions that the Pardoner thinks he rides very fashionably, with nothing covering his head and has a voice of a goat. The similarity between the two is that both characters are odd looking with weird defects in their physical appearance...