There are many sins and virtues attributed to the characters in Eliduc, Everyman, and The Pardoner’s Tale. The characters that I wish to examine for their sins and virtues are those of Eliduc, Guildeluec, Everyman and The Pardoner. The first character, Eliduc, had both virtues and sins, both beautifully displayed in his tale. He was married to Guildeluec, who had always been faithful to him and he to her, a virtue, but when his king sends him away for no apparent reason, he meets the daughter of a king he swears to protect, who is at war, named Guilliadon, a beautiful princess.
Although Eliduc is a married man, despite his valor, he falls in love with Guilliadon who also returns his love. However, he misleads her by withholding that fact that he is already married. This sin of committing lust in his heart by loving a woman to whom he is not married can be considered one of the sins of Eliduc. Another sin of Eliduc is lying to her about the fact that he is a married man. He betrays her by lusting after her when he is married to another woman and so shares his sin of lust because he commits adultery, if not physically, but in his heart.
Although one of his virtues may be considered the fact that he does return home to his wife and thus attempts to remain faithful to her, even though he is miserable when separated from the woman he truly loves. However, his pure love for Guilliadon, once she falls into a faint at the news that he is already a married man and has been deceiving her by allowing her to believe that he is unmarried, and he believes that she is dead is a redeeming act as he swears to become a monk and forever forgo wordly pleasures for the rest of his life as he finds no joy without her.
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He feels guilt for the pain he caused her and is melancholy upon returning home, planning to build a church or monastery so that he would forever shut himself off for his sins and thus possibly repent in his soul. This leads his wife, Guildeluec to realize that something has deeply troubled her husband and concerned for his welfare, has him followed, where she finds the hermitage where Guilliadon lay.
Realizing that this is the woman whom Eliduc is mourning for and has truly fallen in love with, she resuscitates her with a flower and understanding the love that Guilliadon and Eliduc share is true and although she has been a faithful wife, she vows to unselfishly release Eliduc from their wedding bonds and allow Eliduc and Guilliadon to be together, a completely selfless act and a great virtue. Finally, each of the three main characters join the church at the end of their lives, thus reaching their absolution, in turn redeeming them all.
It seems that the author’s message is that of one of absolute unselfishness, because of the actions of Guildeluec, as well as a tale of warring feelings, because of the guilt that Eliduc felt over his love for Guilliadon although he could not help his feelings despite the fact that he was already married. It’s an uplifting tale as although Eliduc did love Guildeluec, she loves him enough to relinquish him to the women he truly loves, Guilliadon, who makes her the most unselfish and virtuous character of the story. In Everyman, the characters sins seem to greatly outweigh the virtues and are more obvious and pronounced.
When God instructs Death to bring Everyman for judgment, Everyman tries to bribe Death, his first sin. Death states that Everyman may have one companion on his journey that will vouch for his virtues and give him some chance for absolution. As he has put much faith in friends throughout his life, he first asks his friends to come with him, but they state they only would want to be with him when times are good and upon realizing the journey Everyman is requesting them to make, they refuse outright, thus representing a “fair weather friend.
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” He then asks family (also known as Kindred) who state that they are too busy dealing with their own accounts. He finally resorts to his “Goods” as they are what he put so much love into in his life. However, Goods cannot go on the journey with Everyman because his love of possessions and money is one of his main sins as it is a sin to put trust into “worldly goods” and thus would not help him account for any of his virtues and would actually work against him. Desperate for a companion on his journey and fearful of judgment, Everyman turns to his Good Deeds, whom he has neglected in life, in his lust for Goods.
Good Deeds, which will speak well for his virtues, agrees to make the journey to death and judgment with him, but because she is too weak, he must go to Confession and there will repent of his sins, which will make Good Deeds stronger so that she may make the journey with him. After repenting of his sins, he is absolved by the Confession and thus is ready to make the journey. Good Deeds summons to them Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Everyman’s Five Wits. However, when told of the journey they are asked to make, they cannot because as a person gets older all of these qualities eventually leave them.
Thus, only Good Deeds is able to make the journey to the grave with Everyman, who then ascends to Heaven. This story displays the sinfulness of putting stock in wordly goods as only your good deeds will remain with you after beauty and strength fade with age. Although Everyman is first presented as a very sinful individual, loving only goods and choosing friends who are not true friends, he finally redeems himself through Confession and thus finds that his absolution is found in his Good Deeds and only through them will he be truly redeemed and only his Good Deeds can account for his virtues as Goods cannot.
The final story, The Pardoner’s Tale, displays the most sinful of all characters displayed in these collection of stories. Chaucer’s Pardoner and his tale of three young men are the most sinful of all. The Pardoner himself proclaims his own sins in the prologue and admits extorting the poor by allowing them the chance to kiss false saint’s relics, which are in fact, the bones of cows, pocketing profits of tithes, as well as admitting that he indulges in jealousy and greed. He states that he preaches solely for the money that he makes, not to help people to correct their own sins, displaying his sin of greed.
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He shows no remorse or guilt for his sins and takes pride in defrauding the poor and in his corruption. He then begins his tale that includes that of three young men who live lives of wickedness. The Pardoner’s tale is simple, and as stated by the Pardoner himself, “greed is the root of all evil. ” He sits down to give a “sermon” on this very subject, hoping to extort and preach against the very sins that he himself is guilty of, telling a tale of three young men who wish to revenge a friend murdered by Death.
In their search for Death, they instead find eight bushels of gold under a tree and decide to take the gold into town under the cover of night because if they took it to town during the daytime they would be accused as thieves, which, of course, they were, as the gold did not belong to them, and theft is one of the most vile sins. They decide to put the gold in bread to carry it into town so as not to be discovered, so one of the young men goes to town to retrieve bread. While away, the young man decides in his greed, to keep the money for himself, and decides to poison his remaining two friends.
He purchases poison from an apothecary and mixes it into two bottles of wine while leaving his own untouched. However, while he’s gone, the two friends decide to kill the young man in town to keep more money for himself. When the friend returns from town, the other two men murder him, greed being their greatest motivator, reinforcing the Pardoner’s moral that “greed is the root of all evil. ” Ironically, when the two remaining friends sit down to celebrate their enlarged shares of gold, they inadvertently drink the poisoned wine, and both die, thus making all three men guilty of the sin of murder and greed.
After the Pardoner completes his tale, he attempts to con the pilgrims by showing them the fake relics and offering to pardon them of their sins by contributing tithes. This story is the most blatant of all in displaying sins of the characters, mostly that of the Pardoner who, hypocritally condemns swearing, yet swears while telling his own tale, preaches against avarice, yet tries to fool the pilgrims into giving him money to kiss false relics, becomes drunk before telling his story although preaching against this very vice when speaking of the three young men, and yet, seems not to have any shame for his actions.
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Chaucer’s character seems irredeemable, and yet, as an archetype, perhaps he is displaying in the character of the Pardoner, just what sinfulness can do to a person, and the Pardoner certainly has a plethora of sins for which he most readily admits. Thus, maybe, the Pardoner, being an actor and con man by nature, is attempting to save those by showing what a life of sinfulness leads to.
