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Medieval Views on Aging and Their Modern Implications: Analyzing Chaucer's Pardoner Through the Lens of a Second Mirror-Stage

O'Hanlon, Kelsie C.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3565-8534
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1512578183523566

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2017, M.A. (Master of Arts in English), Ohio Dominican University, English.
In his most acclaimed work The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer speaks to the heart of humanity through his characters. Of all of the characters and tales Chaucer creates, the one that best reveals the struggles of growing older is the Pardoner. In order to truly understand how the Pardoner reveals insights into medieval and modern views on aging, I will first establish how similarly medieval and modern peoples view the aging process. In addition, before scrutinizing the Pardoner through a psychological lens, I will define who the Pardoner is—analyzing who he is based on what he thinks, how he acts, and what he says. Having established these views towards aging and having defined the Pardoner, I will then reveal how the Pardoner’s tale is reflective of the Pardoner himself. By doing so, I can then establish through a psychoanalytic lens how the reflective nature of the Pardoner’s tale lends itself to revealing how the Pardoner is struggling with his second mirror-stage. This idea of a second mirror-stage builds on Jacques Lacan’s notion of an adolescent mirror-stage and involves the adult re-imagining himself as he ages. Such a revelation will finally give further insights into both medieval and modern outlooks on aging.
Jeremy Glazier, M.F.A. (Advisor)
Martin Brick, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
49 p.
Aging; Developmental Psychology; Literature

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  • O'Hanlon, K. C. (2017). Medieval Views on Aging and Their Modern Implications: Analyzing Chaucer's Pardoner Through the Lens of a Second Mirror-Stage [Master's thesis, Ohio Dominican University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1512578183523566

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • O'Hanlon, Kelsie. Medieval Views on Aging and Their Modern Implications: Analyzing Chaucer's Pardoner Through the Lens of a Second Mirror-Stage . 2017. Ohio Dominican University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1512578183523566.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • O'Hanlon, Kelsie. "Medieval Views on Aging and Their Modern Implications: Analyzing Chaucer's Pardoner Through the Lens of a Second Mirror-Stage ." Master's thesis, Ohio Dominican University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1512578183523566

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