Greedy Of Everything – The Pardoner’s Tale

                                

                     

Geoffrey Chaucer

Tabard Inn

               


       Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the great men who once shaped the world by literary masterpieces, now lies at Westminster abbey. One of the masterpieces that he wrote was “The Canterbury Tales”.  A bunch of pilgrims on a journey told their tales to each other inside the Tabard inn at Southwark.  One of the Pilgrims told his tale, The Pardoner’s Tale…..

                The Pardoner’s Tale is my favorite among the other tales in the Canterbury Tales. It is about three thieves who found bag of gold bars beneath the tree, and because of greediness they cheated on each other, two of the thieves were killed by taking poisoned food. And the other one was stabbed at the back.

The Greedy Thieves

That is one of the results of greediness. As the Bible said  Prov. 11:6 - " The treacherous are caught by their own greed ". Greed can hurt us, and even others. We people should not be greedy, if we are greedy, God will teach us the rightful lesson, like the three thieves, they were killed by their own greedy possession,Luke. 12:15 - " be on guard against every form of greed; life is not in possessions".

A greedy Stick Man (greedy of sticks)

What I learned in the tale is, we should not be greedy , because it will bring no good to us.