Chaucer continues his disapproving characterization of the Pardoner by mentioning the Pardoner’s shady business dealings. The Pardoner preys on the innocent and gullible by selling false religious relics whilst claiming them to be genuine holy artifacts. Additionally, he charges huge sums of money that others couldn’t make in two months. “For in his trunk he had a pillowcase/Which he asserted was Our Lady’s veil…/And with these relics, any time he found/ some poor up-country parson to
Next Pap Finn teaches the evils of alcohol, this drunkard of a father abuses Huck and is only interested in him when money’s involved, for buying more booze of course. “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another” (254) sagaciously comments the surprisingly forgiving Huck about a pair of rapscallions is the next and most prominent moral, one you don’t have to dig for as much but is still a treasure all the same. The King and Duke lie and cheat others, whites enslave, mistreat, and dehumanize blacks, Tom Sawyer exploits others for his own amusement, Colonel Sherburn (although with fair warning) kills a
The judge wanted everyone to think he was so innocent, but in fact, he was overwhelmingly selfish. Judge Pyncheon is similar to Cap, from The Pathfinder. Although he is not the most visible antagonist in the novel, his attitude of greed, superiority, and ignorance, cause him to be intellectually blinded. He is unable to judge the people around him, and puts his trust in the worst villains, such as the Tuscarora Arrowhead, and Corporal Muir, while being suspicious of the faithful Jasper. Cap and Judge Pyncheon are similar because they both have their outrageous moments.
I feel Wilde did this to express how easily people can lose their highly regarded reputation; this is the social message throughout the play as Lord Illingworth becomes ‘a man of no importance’. The audience would expect Lord Illingworth to be offended by Lady Stutfield remark that he is ‘very, very wicked,’ however Lord Illingworth basked in his notoriety. So already the audience are unsure about the behavior of Lord Illingworth. At the time of the showing of the play many were appalled by Lord Illingworth’s sense of moral abandonment. Lord Illingworth in today’s society could be seen as being a misogynistic condemnable character.
“The Outsiders” and “Saints and Roughnecks” commonly point towards one issue i.e. future of individuals is decided by the way they are treated by the materialistic society which tends to favor the rich and suppress the poor to the extent that the latter are pushed into social exclusion. The society in which we live today tends to be principally divided into two types of people—the rich and the poor. People belonging to both of these classes can be criminals, but it appears as though the poor are always the ones committing delinquent acts. The poor get noticed for their crimes because their region is specific and a scarcity of resources which causes them to be less smart in hiding their crimes unlike the rich.
He claims that during his sermons he shows useless trifles that he passes off as saints' relics. He proudly tells about how he defrauds people who believed they have sinned. He states explicitly that his goal is not to save people from sin, but to gain money from them. The Pardoner says that he will not imitate the apostles in their poverty, but will have food, comfort, and a wench in every town. Analysis Among the various pilgrims featured in the Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner is one of the most fully realized characters.
The Bible talks about greed and its implications. Habakkuk 2:5 says, “Indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples” (KJV). This scripture shows what greed will make one become, if one does not manage his or her greedy desires. Greedy people never get satisfied, just as death is never satisfied.
Ellard Simms is the bad person in this movie. He is greedy and only wants the money of Catherine Simms. Ellard plans to give the money as donation for his group called the KKK. Owen is the brother of the Catherine Simms. In the end the good guys still beats the bad guys.
He was also rumoured to be having sexual relationships which other men. Another example is Pope Leo X who committed the abuse, simony, from the sale of indulgences to improve St Peter’s Church in Rome, but a lot of this money went on military campaigns. Many of the Popes needed large amounts of taxes to fund their lifestyles and their demands became a matter of concern as the Pope was meant to be someone who could lead the people to salvation. This caused resentment among Christians especially those in Germany. The people of Germany already resented the papacy because it exploited Germany economically as it was one of the richest, most urbanised and educated parts of Europe, extracting the largest sums from the ruling families.
Buckingham was also largely resented in Parliament due to his wealth and awful foreign policy. They called him ‘the cause of all our miseries’. Even though there were other reasons such as religion historians such as Conrad Russell agree that finance was the most prominent reason for the bad relationship. Finance was the cause to several problems during Charles’s reign. At the start of which his first Parliament of 1625 offered him two subsidies to demonstrate their loyalty however Charles asked for more which was unprecedented.