Confession : to manipulate or to be manipulated?

• Main Author: Yip, Yun Xing.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52201
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Tracing both the Wife of Bath’s and the Pardoner’s prologue and tale, this paper seeks to explore the confession narrative in both tales and first elucidate how both the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner shrewdly manipulate the discourse of confession to influence what they want their audience to percei...