The theme I created for Death and the Miser is “Greed will ultimately lead to your demise.” This theme shows how the Miser’s greed throughout his life led to his death. The miser was a fighter of some sort, but then he became a part of the church, shown by the rosary in his hand and the indulgences in his chest, which I believe were fake, and he was selling them. The Miser’s greed led to his death and, even in his final hours, he was trying to buy his way into heaven by giving gold to the demon by his bed. The two genres I chose to connect Death and the Miser to are the well-known belief of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden because Eve’s greed of eating the forbidden fruit led to her and Adam being cursed by God, and an artwork titled Haywain