Greediness And Money In The Pardoner's Tale

With a bunch of short tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner’s Tale”, unleashes irony throughout the tale. Chaucer’s tale delivers a lesson about greediness and money to his readers. During the Medieval period, social classes were fond of barter systems. As the barter system grew, people were introduced to currency. Until now, money is an important possession to all individuals around the world. The Pardoner and his tale could teach vital morals to everyone in today’s society that greediness and money could cause complicating effects. First of all, The Pardoner indicates that “Radix malorum est cupiditas” (line 4), meaning “Greed is the root of all evil”, tells us that greediness could cause a lot of trouble to be done. When an individual’s character is brought out as greedy, it could have so many negative results between others. The act of greediness could suddenly happen when an individual has an undying affection for the possession of money. In “the Pardoner’s Tale”, The men find florins under an oak tree told to them from an old man. The two older men plan to kill the young one, in order to share the florins equally. As the young one comes back, they plan to “get up in fun, [and] have a wrestle, then as [he] attacks, [he’ll] put the dagger in his back” (lines 220-223). As

Greediness during Medieval period was not appreciated, and until today it is still not appreciated. The way people handled greediness and selfishness in the Medieval era, would sometimes lead to death. Today’s free world, greedy people will not be looked upon to death. Back then and today, is completely different, they handle things disparate now. Simply, if an individual comes across a greedy person, just walk away. Cupidity is the root of all evil. It should not be done today nor tomorrow. The moral of the tale is to not be greedy towards people. Don’t let the power of money lead an individual to become a