How far back does greediness effect a person concerning their thinking and judgement? Greed is the wanting or desire for wealth, power, and status. After reading Geoffrey Chaucer’s stories “The Pardoner’s Tale”, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, and “Le Morte d’Arthur”, one thing that really stood out was that greed plays a part in each of these stories. And mind you, these stories were written around the year 1400 give or take. I realized that greed can play a part in almost anyone’s reasoning or logic. Greed played a part when the three rioters had gone to kill death but found a surprise instead in “The Pardoner’s Tale”, when the knight had decided to commit a heinous act in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, and finally when Sir Gawain couldn’t let go
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A trio of men, labeled the ‘rioters’ went off to search for death and basically bring death to death. As they are searching, they get a tip from an old man (perhaps death himself) and says “ turn up this crooked way towards that grove I left death there today under a tree, and there you’ll find him waiting”. So the rioters go up there, but unexpectedly there’s a big pile of gold there and are all happy and joyful. The two oldest tell the younger to go into town and get some bread and wine to celebrate. He does, and while he does they come up with a plan to kill him when he returns so there is more gold to go around. But unbeknownst to them, the younger grabs some poison to put into the wine, so that after they die he gets the gold all to himself. When he returns, the two older guys jump and kill the youngest, and after they drink the wine to which soon they perish as well. This substantially illustrates greed in their planning because if they didn’t turn on each other and split the gold equally and honestly, then all of them would still have lived. Instead, they let the big pile of gold and greed creep up into their minds to result in bloodshed. “The Pardoner’s Tale” had represented the profit characteristic of greed. The three men had seen gold and all hell had broken loose. Before they knew what was happening plans were made to kill each other, even though the root of their …show more content…
Wealth was a part of the first story, “The Pardoner’s Tale”, power in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, and status in “Le Morte d’Arthur”. My response was resulted from my question of how far back did greed cloud people’s judgement and logic. I got my answer after reading these stories. These stories were written around the year 1400, hundreds of years ago. Greed was still playing a part then as Chaucer was inspired, probably from things all around the world. He had a lot to look at, like for example like the rough period that catholicism went through and how they did anything they needed to to stay powerful. Or how countries during that time were sailing looking for more riches and land they could acquire, for their
A trio of men, labeled the ‘rioters’ went off to search for death and basically bring death to death. As they are searching, they get a tip from an old man (perhaps death himself) and says “ turn up this crooked way towards that grove I left death there today under a tree, and there you’ll find him waiting”. So the rioters go up there, but unexpectedly there’s a big pile of gold there and are all happy and joyful. The two oldest tell the younger to go into town and get some bread and wine to celebrate. He does, and while he does they come up with a plan to kill him when he returns so there is more gold to go around. But unbeknownst to them, the younger grabs some poison to put into the wine, so that after they die he gets the gold all to himself. When he returns, the two older guys jump and kill the youngest, and after they drink the wine to which soon they perish as well. This substantially illustrates greed in their planning because if they didn’t turn on each other and split the gold equally and honestly, then all of them would still have lived. Instead, they let the big pile of gold and greed creep up into their minds to result in bloodshed. “The Pardoner’s Tale” had represented the profit characteristic of greed. The three men had seen gold and all hell had broken loose. Before they knew what was happening plans were made to kill each other, even though the root of their …show more content…
Wealth was a part of the first story, “The Pardoner’s Tale”, power in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, and status in “Le Morte d’Arthur”. My response was resulted from my question of how far back did greed cloud people’s judgement and logic. I got my answer after reading these stories. These stories were written around the year 1400, hundreds of years ago. Greed was still playing a part then as Chaucer was inspired, probably from things all around the world. He had a lot to look at, like for example like the rough period that catholicism went through and how they did anything they needed to to stay powerful. Or how countries during that time were sailing looking for more riches and land they could acquire, for their