The Story of ForgivenessThe world is full of hypocrites and in the story "The Story of Forgiveness", Chaucer talks about a man who lives a life of sin. The story of the Pardoner is an epology of a pardoner who has the power of the Church to forgive others their sins, but who makes his living by lying and deceiving his audience. Throughout the Tale of Forgiveness he preaches about greed, drinking, blasphemy, and gambling, but in the Prologue to Forgiveness he admits to having committed these sins himself. The Pardoner is really just a 14th century crook who makes his living off his own hypocrisy. In the Tale of Forgiveness, the Pardoner condemns people who drink and says: “As the Bible testifies, which is most express/This lust is born of wine and drunkenness. » (263). He denounces drinkers and the evils they create, but in his prologue he states: “Nay, let me drink the liquor of the grapes… Now that I have had a sip of ripe beer” (262). The pardoner admits to drinking but later preaches against it, his hypocrisy knows no bounds as he makes others feel guilty for something he himself does, after all, isn't he telling the story in a bar. As a church-appointed Pardoner, he is responsible for setting a certain example to those who turn to him for guidance, but he nevertheless lives his life controlled by greed. The Pardoner teaches gluttony and greed, as well as the evils that befall him, but in his prologue he repeatedly contradicts his teachings. In his story, he talks about three men who go looking for...