No new tale to tell

                 The Canterbury tale that I want to talk about is  the Pardoners Tale. I think that the concept that greed is the root of evil is very important in this story. I can remember when I was little I use the hear the term greed was the root of all evil but I never really quite understood it. Looking back I now realize that if you trace every evil aspect of human life you can effectively draw it back to greed which is a key concept in the pardoner's tale. In this story this drunk sinful men go around idiotically looking for death. They go about harassing the old man trying to achieve some type of glory or praise , but upon finding the gold coins they abandon there mission to take the gold coins. From this alone you can see that the three men are filled with greed/sin/evil. To me these type of people deep down are evil, there only purpose life is too seek out and receive some type of praise , glory or riches. For instance in the story it states that as soon as the 3 men in the story saw the gold they immediately forgot about the real reason they were out harassing the old man, this shows that finding death and saving there people wasn't all that important to them, they just wanted to be praise and revered and since they found the gold they felt that they didn't need that praise anymore. I found it very interesting that once they found the gold that they became greedy of each other. I like this story a lot because in the beginning the soldiers are looking for death and in the end they find it. I feel as if the old man is a symbol for God because he seems wise and ultimately knows where those particular men will find death.