Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Pardoners Tale ii: 463-572. Write a critical and rhetorical analysis of the passage. Giving regard to its work, function, audience, circulation etc.

Middle English Popular Literature
Write a critical analysis of the passage you choose for discussion, giving due regard to what is going on in the passage, but paying particular attention to the means by which the poet makes his point. Please focus on the passage, but you may need to relate it to the rest of the text or to like texts. You should extend your analysis to considerations of the text's place and work - circulation, function, audience, etc. That is to say, try to present not just a critical b…