"The Pardoner's Tale" begins with three men in a drunken rage swearing to find death after it steals another one of their friends. "If we can only catch him, Death is dead"(Chaucer 117). They take an oath to always stick up for one another no matter what, and then they contin

Under the tree they find gold florins. "No longer was it death these fellows sought" or so they thought (Chaucer 118). When the rioters do find the gold it dissolves their oath of brotherhood and puts them on their path to death. The gold immediately changes their plan of finding death to becoming rich. The sin of gluttony takes over in each man planning to kill the next. The old man, his words, and their pursuit are completely forgotten.

What they find under that tree is gold, greed, treachery, and finally death. The rioters do get what they set out for even if it found them instead of them finding it. Whoever the old man may be he is right about death being under that tree. The rioters are never aware of what they really find because of their greed. The Pardoner states that money is the root of all evil and pro

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Approximate Word count = 559
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)