Examples Of Greed In The Pardoner's Tale

There are six sins that can keep you from going to heaven if committed. These sins include gluttony, envy, pride, laziness, anger and lechery. Greed can blind a man to taking the evil path and thinking it is the right one. It can also make it hard to differentiate between right and wrong. The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer is a tale showing gluttony taking the life of three so called faithful friends. The desire for money and wealth makes one discourteous, greedy and sinful as portrayed by the three friends stabbing each other in the back. These three men got their share of consequences accordingly to their unmannerly behavior. The first act will show the three rioters coming to ignorant conclusions while being drunk. The next act will show how the three companions act with the old man. Then the last act will show how the greediness for treasure and wealth takes over the three companions and makes them stab one another in the back.
Being intoxicated is a behavioral character of the uncouth. While drunk, it is hard to think correctly, which is why the rioters believed death was a person who killed their friend. “And as they started, drunken, in this rage/”Death shall be dead if we find where he went.” (Chaucer 1) This quote allows one to
Churl of evil grace, why are you all wrapped up, except your face? Why do you live so long in so great age?” (2). Asks one of the three friends to the old man. “For in that grove I left him, by my fay, under a tree, and there he will abide (2).” says the old man to the three companions. These quotes show the three rioters being rude to the old man by asking him why he is still alive. Based on their actions and behavior towards the old man, he directs the three friends to go under a tree to find what they are looking for, which is death. And ironically, they end up dying after telling the old man that he should be dead because of his old