The Pardoner Greed Quotes

In the cautionary tale, The Pardoner, the author exemplifies the dangers of greed. The story focuses on three men who come together to defeat “Death.” As they begin their journey, they are displayed as friends, even going as far as calling each other brothers. When they discover a large sum of money, they begin turning on one another, all of whom want the money for theirselves. The author’s shows that greed is the root of all evil.

The story begins with three men who are sitting around a table, indulging in alcohol and gambling. As they drink, they spot the corpse of a friend. After some further investigation, they discover that somebody by the name of “Death” had been terrorizing the town and killing many people. Upon hearing the news, the men say: “We three be allones. Let each of us hold up his hand to other And each of us become the others' brother, And we will slay this falsè traitor Death.” And so, they create a pact to slay this person. The irony in this quote is in the fact that the murder’s name is “Death.” Death comes in

I believe this man is death. In the film he is an old, pale man, clothed in a black robe that covers him from head to toe. His physical appearance shows old age, misery, but also wisdom. As the three men interrogate him, the old man finally says “To findè Death, turn up this crooked way, For in that grove I left him, by my fay, / Under a tree. And there he will abide.” Upon further analyzation of this quote, I notice how the old man says that he left death there, meaning that he would have had to have possession of Death in order to leave him underneath the tree. This further support the theory of old man being death, the irony is that the men came face to face with exactly who they were looking for, but did not recognize it, in fact, the old man did not have to lay a finger on the men, they took care of it amongst each