Examples Of Greed In The Pardoner's Tale

Greed is the root of all evil, and the wages of sin is death”. The Pardoner’s Tale in the Canterbury Tales has many similarities to the world that we live in today. In the Pardoner’s Tale, there are three different young men; all of them excessive drinkers and spend all of their time drunk and intoxicated. Soon, they notice one of their friends had been slain by Death that very night from the plague. This truly angers them and they make an oath to each other that all three of them would team up to try and find and kill death. This absurd idea ultimately leads them into searching around for death, and ultimately, just like in today’s world, their greed will help them find it. This story, despite its age, manages to give many relations to

This causes them to lose a lot of their moral and ethical respect for others. People will go out of their way to find ways to get money, even if it means using and hurting other people for that money, and is especially prominent in people with less money. Just like the characters in the story, they cannot determine when something is not right and might end up bad, because all they are set on is the money. In the story, the poor boys respect for money caused them to lose any respect for the others around them, and they decided to try and kill each other. It was ultimately self-destructive in the end. It is much too common to see people lose their minds for money as inflation goes up, so does

In the story, the boys first encounter on their mission to find death would be an old man. The old man told them that they would find death sitting under a tree in the distance, and so they took off. They were ecstatic to find the gold under the tree, but just like the old man said, they ended up finding death and losing their lives because of greed. You could find multiple examples of throughout in today’s world. It is the biggest way of marketing in the world, but advertisements are the biggest way people get deceived in today’s society. People are lied to, or “not told the whole truth”, through advertisements such as pills, alcohol, games, phones, etc., and are wrongfully deceived into buying something that was not what it was said to be. Just like the boys in the story, they found death, but they were deceived into thinking that it was a good thing, but it was actually going to be their own