In the Prologue, Chaucer's Pardoner tells us that he preaches in churches and that he always preaches the same sermon, which he knows by heart, on the text "Radix malorum est cupitidas" which means "Greed is the root of evils". Later in "the Pardoner's Tale" Chaucer shows evil in work and death as the result of this greed.

The evil pardoner has an under-handed relic-business that, he boasts, brings him a hundred marks a year in private income. Therefore, by playing on the tenderest fears and feelings of his congregation, by terrorism, hypocrisy, cajolery, bribery, and blackmail, the Pardoner got as much money that could be coaxed or torn from the poor and superstitious. The Pardoner has composed this wonderfully powerful

In the medieval society, existing alongside the Church was the complicated feudal system based on landholding. Nobody owned land independently but only as a vassal of an overlord, who in turn owed allegiance either to some great noble or to the king himself. The system was really an elaborate chain of loyalties, with rent, so to speak, paid principally in military service to the overlord. As the town grew, the craftsmen and tradesmen organized themselves in guilds, which decided wages and prices, insisted upon good standard of material and workmanship, regulated terms of apprenticeship for the particular craft or trade. Indeed not only apprenticeship but almost everything in medieval society including the clothing a man wore, was regulated and carefully ordered.

Then in the beginnings of the tale the three rioters see a corpse being carried by and they find out that the person was slain that night, dead drunk. "Ther cam a privee theef men clepeth Deeth,/ That in this contree al the peple sleeth," The man who is carrying the corpse goes on to warn the rioters of Death and calls it an adversary. He also told them to look for it at all times and to be ready to meet it at any time. "Chaucer uses personification here as he portrays Death as a person. He approaches death from the angle of an enemy that one must always be aware of and in wait for."(unknown Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia)

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