Sins In Reality: Are We All Doomed? There are many things that people in the world had to face in the past, from dealing the sometime long and dangerous trips to far-off lands, to the very inner-workings of the day-to-day life of the people around them. There are many different stories that are told, and they all have their own moral to teach the listener something from what happens to the people in the stories. It is because of this that a lot of the stories that people told in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, we can see how sin affected the people in The Pardoner’s Tale. By telling the story and showing how quickly Death can come for even the most prepared, we need to do everything that we can to be in the good graces of God before we die, even if it means giving The Pardoner money to “wash away” the sins that you may have so God will accept you into his kingdom. In the story, we are introduced to three men who are having to witness their friend being buried, and by seeing this, they are enraged and start …show more content…
By showing how Greed ruins lives, he then tells them that they can avoid having the stain of sin on their soul if they die, all for the cost of a few coins. By telling this story before asking for people to come to him for forgiveness, it almost eliminates their need to keep their money, because they can already see how sin can be their immediate downfall. By telling his story after the other tales, which were filled with the cost of their own sins, he can show how they need his services to have the purity to be in God’s Kingdom. When he tells them that he can wash away their sin, he is falling victim to his own lesson though, of his own Pride, which makes one think that perhaps there is no reason to even get absolved at all, which is precisely what the host tells him in so little