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Examples Of Greed In The Pardoner's Tale

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The Canterbury Tales all have the same common factor of depicting a common social issue or truth. However, the Pardoner’s Tale depicts an important, universal and timeless message of greed. Greed is the intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. It is a common factor in the chaotic history of humanity because, as the Pardoner’s Tale describes it, greed is the root of all evil. This tale is timeless and universal because of no matter when or where greed will always be the source of chaos and depravity. Greed is a timeless concept because, throughout human history, greed has been a common source for most wicked actions, whether it is greed for money, power or status. In the Pardoner’s Tale, the pardoner
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