Examples Of Greed In The Pardoner's Tale

The story in the The Pardoner’s Tale it talks about very interesting human behaviors that lead to their own destruction. In the story it shows the audiences how certain things can lead to bad unpleasant consequences. The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, lust and greed. These sins are considered to be deadly because each sin is closely related to one another which leads to other much greater sins. From these 7 sins greed seems to appear more often in the pardoner's tales. To begin with there are three men who have a love for money that seems to be the root of all evi. The three men encounter an old man who tells them they can find death under the oak tree and is sad cause death won't take his life, so the men go to the oak tree to find eight bushels of gold under the oak tree they were led to by

As a result on finding the gold two of the men made a plan to murder the other man who went into town to get food and wine so they can have all the gold for themselves ,“And with your dagger see you do the same...My right dear friend, just between you and me;” (lines 502-504). As you can see Greed is making these men want to kill their own friend in order to have more money for themselves. However, they did not know that he himself had evil intentions as well. The man who went into town purchased three bottles of wine then, he poured rat poison into two of them for the two men to drink who are