Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale Discussion Questions

Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale Discussion Questions

11/19/2014

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1. The three rioters pledged to seek out and kill death. 2. a) the old man tells the rioters they will find death waiting for them under the tree. b) The three rioters find a large sum of gold coins under the tree. 3. The two elder rioters plan to kill the younger man in order to get more than their share of gold. 4. When the youngest of the three goes to town for food, he comes up with the idea to kill his companions as to keep all the gold for himself. He buys poison and mixes it in with the drink he will bring back to his "friends".

1. The three rioters pledged to kill Death. They saw a coffin riding away and decided to stop kill Death. 2. a) The old man said the rioters would find Death under the tree. b) The rioters actually found a pile of florins on the ground. There were eight bushels worth of coins. 3. The two older rioters sent the youngest off to buy food. They planned to ambush him and kill him when he came back so they wouldn't have to share it so many ways. 4.The youngest rioter bought poison while he was in town. He planned to give it to the two older rioters to drink so he would have all the gold.

1. The three drunkards promise to find and kill death. 2a. The old man tells the drunkards that they will find death under the tree. 2b. The drunkards actually find sacks of gold coins. 3. To increase their share of the gold, the two drunkards who were supposed to watch the gold decided to stab the drunkard who was supposed to bring them wine and bread. 4. The youngest drunkard poisions the wine he bought from the town to take the gold for himself. In the end, the two stab him then drink the poisened wine and they all end up dying. Just like the old man said they would find death under the tree.

1. After seeing the coffin of one of their friends, the three rioters pledge to kill Death. They claim Death to be a traitor and they want to find and kill him. 2a. The old man tells the three rioters they will find death under the tree. 2b. The rioters actually found eight bushels of golden florins under the tree. 3. The two older rioters sent the youngest rioter into town to buy bread and wine. The two older rioters plan to kill the youngest so they only have to share the coins with each other. 4. When the youngest rioter goes into town he comes up with a plan to kill the two other rioters. He buys poison and puts it into bottles for the two older rioters to drink.

1. The three rioters decided to kill death after they saw their friends coffin being taken away. 2. A) The old man said they will find death under the tree. B) When the rioters arrive at the tree they find piles of gold. 3. In order for the rioters the increase their gold, they send their youngest brother to get food so they can kill him when he comes back. 4. When the youngest rioter went to town, he purchased poison and planned to give it to the others when he got back so he could keep all the gold to himself.

1. The rioters pledge to kill Death. Line 39 says, "And we will kill this traitor Death, I say!" 2.a. The old man tells the rioters that they will find Death waiting under an oak tree. Line 105 says, "Under a tree, and there you'll find him waiting." b. The rioters actually find a beautiful, bright and precious pile of florins, or coins. This can be backed up in lines 114 through 117. 3. When the third rioter comes back, one of them is to approach him for a friendly wrestle. Then, the other rioter will come up behind him with a dagger and stab him. The two rioters are working together to kill the third and youngest rioter so that they can split the gold themselves (lines 168-174). 4. The youngest rioter goes back to town for bread and wine and thinks about desiring the entire pile of coins for himself. He picks up the wine, but goes to an apothecary to poison the other two rioter's drinks so that they would die, and he, the third rioter, would get all the coins (lines 212-219).

1. The three rioters see a dead friend and get enraged. They plan to kill Death. 2 a. The man says that he has been waiting for Death. He tells them that they will find Death under the tree. b. they do not find Death. The find 8 bags of gold coins. 3. The two rioters at the tree plan to kill off the third rioter. When the third rioter comes back from town they plan to jump and kill him. 4. The youngest rioter goes to town to buy three bottles of wine and bread. He also buys poison and poisons two of the bottles of wine. He plans to give to the two rioters the poisoned bottles of wine so he can keep the gold for himself.

1. The three rioters pledge to kill Death because he has taken away all of their friends. They vow to be brothers and protect each other in their quest. 2. a.) The old man tells the rioters that they will find Death under the tree. by saying this, he leads them into thinking Death will be in the form of an old man. b.) The rioters actually find a pile of florins, or gold coins. The men do not realize that the gold coins are in fact the Death the old man was talking about (the greed brings about their death). 3. The two eldest of the three rioters decide to increase their share of good by killing the youngest "brother." Their plan is to attack him with knives when he comes back from running his errands. 4. The youngest rioter decided to get not only bread and wine, but poison to put in the eldest two brothers' wine to kill them and take the treasure for himself. His plan works, but too late for the other brothers have already attacked and killed the younger brother.

1. The three rioters pledge to find Death and kill him for killing their friends. They pledge to be brother's and protect eachother. 2.a) The old man tells the three rioters that they will find Death under a tree. b) What they actually find is a large pile of money. 3. The two rioters who stay at the tree decide to increase their share of the gold by killing the rioter who went to town. 4. The rioter who went to town decides to take all of the money for himself and buys poison with which to kill the other two rioters.

1. They three rioters pledged they were going to destroy Death. They left early in the morning and spent all day searching for him in hopes to stop him from killing even more people. 2. a) The rioters believe that the old man is working with death to destroy youths. Because of this, the man told the rioters they would find death underneath the tree. b) The three men actually found a pile of gold florins underneath the tree. They gold, however, ended up being death for all three of them. 3. The two older rioters planned to kill the youngest. The first man was going to pretend to wrestle with the young one, and then the second man was going to stab him with his knife. After that, the first one was also going to stab him with his knife. 4. The youngest rioter wanted the gold all to himself, so he made a plan to poison the other two rioters. When he first got into town, he went to the apothecary and bought poison, claiming it was for rats. Then he went and bought three bottles of wine and put poison inside two of them.

1. The three rioters agree to assassinate Death. 2. An old man tells them that they can find Death under a tree, but they only find a pile of gold. 3. The two older rioters plot to kill the younger one to increase their share of gold. 4. The youngest rioter also plotted to kill the others and bought poison and wine to kill them.

1. The rioters saw their dead friend and pledged to make death pay by killing him. 2. a) the old man tells the rioters that they can find death under a tree. b) Instead of finding death, they find a pile of gold. 3. Two of the rioters send their friend to town to get bread and wine. They plan to kill him when he gets back. 4. The third rioter goes into town and realizes he could have all the gold to himself if his friends weren't there. He buys poison in town and poors it into the two wine glasses for his friends to drink.

1. The three rioters pledge to defend each other on their journey to kill Death. 2. a) The old man tells them they will find Death. b) They actually find a pile of gold coins. 3. The two older rioters plan to wrestle with the younger one "for fun", and then literally stab him in the back while he's down. 4) The youngest rioter plans to poison the wine of the two older ones.

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