Pardoner's Tale: Avarice Is The Root Of All Evil
There is one quote that is used to describe the pardoners tale and it is, “Avarice is the root of all evil”. In the pardoners tale there are three men who are on a quest to avenge their friend and kill death. It was at that moment when they drunkenly swore to each other that they were “brothers” and that they would live and die for one another. In the beginning of their journey they come across an old man who knew where they could find death. The three men accuse the old man of being a spy for Death because he is older and he wishes to kill the young, when really he is just waiting for Death to claim him instead. The three tell him if he doesn’t tell them where Death is hiding he will pay for it. The old man directs the three young rioters
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He thought about ways to achieve this goal when the Devil himself took over his thoughts. The Devil told the youngest that they only way to achieve his goal is to murder his two friends by poisoning them. The Devil told him to kill them both and never repent it again. Controlled by the many thoughts of his own greed he ran straight to the drugstore and asked the clerk if there was any available poison to kill the rats that invested his house and the polecat that had been eating all of his chickens at night. The youngest says the only way to get even with the two is to kill them during the …show more content…
It was then that one distracted the youngest and the other used his dagger to stab him in the back. When the youngest finally took his last breath and was dead the two remaining men felt the need to celebrate with a drink before it was time to bury his body. Unknown that there was poison in the two bottles they drank until it was them who also perished. It was then that Death claimed two more lives. The Pardoners Tale truly shows the greed and hypocrisy in humanity. The three men swore to each other that they would always be brothers; they will stand by each other, and die for one another. These so called “brothers” show their true hypocrisy when they literally stab each other in the back. This Tale shows that there are no boundaries when it comes to money. The thought of money consumes every thought, and the need to have wealth causes people to do unspeakable
He thought about ways to achieve this goal when the Devil himself took over his thoughts. The Devil told the youngest that they only way to achieve his goal is to murder his two friends by poisoning them. The Devil told him to kill them both and never repent it again. Controlled by the many thoughts of his own greed he ran straight to the drugstore and asked the clerk if there was any available poison to kill the rats that invested his house and the polecat that had been eating all of his chickens at night. The youngest says the only way to get even with the two is to kill them during the …show more content…
It was then that one distracted the youngest and the other used his dagger to stab him in the back. When the youngest finally took his last breath and was dead the two remaining men felt the need to celebrate with a drink before it was time to bury his body. Unknown that there was poison in the two bottles they drank until it was them who also perished. It was then that Death claimed two more lives. The Pardoners Tale truly shows the greed and hypocrisy in humanity. The three men swore to each other that they would always be brothers; they will stand by each other, and die for one another. These so called “brothers” show their true hypocrisy when they literally stab each other in the back. This Tale shows that there are no boundaries when it comes to money. The thought of money consumes every thought, and the need to have wealth causes people to do unspeakable