The primary theme of the pardoner’s tale is greed is the root of all evil. This means that the love and dangers of money can lead to different types of evil and can cause disruptive behavior. People today can learn from the pardoner’s tale by showing us a lesson on how greed can take advantage of our minds and how it affects people in real life.
In modern day times, criminals symbolizes the rioters in the Pardoner’s tale. They are a vicious group of people that do inappropriate activities such as robbing a bank, murdering people or kidnapping children. An example of a criminal in today’s society that do similar activity as the rioters in the pardoner’s tale is a bank robber. They have an intense and selfish desire for money and they would do …show more content…
The rioters came across a tree that was filled with gold and they have to split the money equally. Each one of the rioters are figuring out a way to have all the gold to themselves. In lines 192-195 where it states “And so as a solution I propose We draw for lots and see the way it goes The one who draws the longest, lucky man, Shall run to town as quickly as he can.” This quote gives us a clue that would lead to the rioters’ death. In the twenty first century, you see people stealing wallets, purses and other personal items for the greed of money. Furthermore, in lines 274-278, it says that one of the rioters tries to take the whole money to himself. It states “He kept the third one clean as well he might, For his own drink, meaning to work all night Stacking the gold and carrying it away And when this rioter, This devil’s clay.” Toward the end of the story, the two other rioters end up dying by drinking the poison wine. Based on lines 287-289 where it states “He took a bottle full of poison of And drank and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also and they perished both.” People need to take this in consideration and be aware of this situation
In modern day times, criminals symbolizes the rioters in the Pardoner’s tale. They are a vicious group of people that do inappropriate activities such as robbing a bank, murdering people or kidnapping children. An example of a criminal in today’s society that do similar activity as the rioters in the pardoner’s tale is a bank robber. They have an intense and selfish desire for money and they would do …show more content…
The rioters came across a tree that was filled with gold and they have to split the money equally. Each one of the rioters are figuring out a way to have all the gold to themselves. In lines 192-195 where it states “And so as a solution I propose We draw for lots and see the way it goes The one who draws the longest, lucky man, Shall run to town as quickly as he can.” This quote gives us a clue that would lead to the rioters’ death. In the twenty first century, you see people stealing wallets, purses and other personal items for the greed of money. Furthermore, in lines 274-278, it says that one of the rioters tries to take the whole money to himself. It states “He kept the third one clean as well he might, For his own drink, meaning to work all night Stacking the gold and carrying it away And when this rioter, This devil’s clay.” Toward the end of the story, the two other rioters end up dying by drinking the poison wine. Based on lines 287-289 where it states “He took a bottle full of poison of And drank and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also and they perished both.” People need to take this in consideration and be aware of this situation