| While all of JK Rowling's seven Harry Potter novels deal with the battle between good and evil, in her final Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007), she calls upon Geoffrey Chaucer from the Middle Ages to help illustrate this, particularly the poet's "Pardoner's Tale." This paper, then, examines Rowling's assertion that morality is dependent on people's choices; it studies her use of Chaucer's tale "The Pardoner's Tale," and shows that Rowling emphasizes Aristotelian virtues to exemplify a truly moral person. The thesis studies two characters in particular for this analysis: the pardoner from Chaucer's tale, and Rowling's Albus Dumbledore, Aristotle's "ideal man.". |
