In The Pardoner's Tale he tells the physician's tale and the host is shocked by it, so to bring back joy he then tells the pardoner to tell another tale but the pilgrims suggest a moral story. That's when the tale begins, he first criticizes how the pilgrims are living. They are living by gluttony, drunkenness gambling, temptation, and swearing. In his story the main motifs that are used is gluttony and greed. The pardoner uses these sins through characterization and imagery. Gluttony appears when the three rioters are at the tavern and find out one of their comrades has died because death slain him, with this information the drunk men go on a journey to kill Death. ""To live and die, each of them for the other, as if he were his very own