At the beginning of <em>The Pardoner's Tale </em>from Chaucer's <em>Canterbury Tales, </em>the three rioters can be found in a tavern drinking. The narrator of the tale, the Pardoner, condemns these three young men for leading such disgraceful lives, spending them drinking, gambling, swearing, etc.
When they hear their friend has been killed, they decide to go out and find Death, and have their revenge. That is the basic plot of this tale. The tale is quite ironic, given that the narrator is as vile as these three characters, yet fails to see the resemblance.
The stylistic element used in the passage is incongruity. It is a form of satire or humor. Incongruity is used in an unsuitable time. For example, If a man were in a court room and belched loudly while receiving his sentence, that would be a use of incongruity. Another example would be if at a royal wedding the groom's pants fell down in the middle of the ceremony.
I'm not exactly sure, but I think this statement is true, although the antagonist can sometimes be a rival to the protagonist without knowing. It really depends.
<span>Chapter Seven makes it clear that the arrival of Ikemefuna into Okonkwo's household has been very positive for Nwoye. At the beginning of the novel, Nwoye is depicted as a rather feminine young boy who shames his father and spends more time with his mother. This all changes with the influence of Ikemefuna, who comes to be like an older brother for Nwoye, as this following quote reveals:</span>