The Pardoner's Tale The world is full of hypocrites and in the story "The Pardoner's Tale", Chaucer writes about a man who lives a life of sin. The Pardoner's Tale is an epology of a pardoner who has the power, given to him by the church, to forgive others for their sins, but makes his living by lying and deceiving his audience. Throughout the Pardoner's Tale he preaches greed, drinking, blasphemy, and gambling, but in the Pardoner's Prologue he admits to having committed these sins himself. The Forgiver is really just a 14th century con man who makes a living off his own hypocrisy. In the Pardoner's Tale the Pardoner condemns people who drink and says, "Witness the Bible, which is much expressed / That lust is engendered by wine and drunkenness" (263). He denounces drinkers and the evils they create, but in his prologue he states, "No, let me drink the grape liquor... Now that I have had a drink of ripe corn beer" (262). The pardoner admits to drinking but then preaches against it, his hypocrisy knows no bounds because he makes others feel guilty for something he himself does, after all, isn't he telling the story while inside a bar. As the church's appointed pardoner, he is responsible for setting a certain example for those who look to him for guidance, but he continues to live a life controlled by greed. The Forgiver teaches gluttony and greed and the evils that befall them, but in his prologue he contradicts his teachings many times. In his story he tells of three men who go searching...