It is ironic that the Tale is told by the Pardoner given the fact that the messages in which the Pardoner speaks about are apparently in total contrast to that which the Pardoner actually practices. In essence, the Pardoner does not practice what he preaches because he himself is also driven by greed.
The moral of "The Pardoner's Tale" is that greed is the root of all evil. The tale warns against the destructive power of greed and the consequences that come with it. It cautions against the pursuit of wealth at the expense of moral values.
In "The Canterbury Tales," the Pardoner's tale is a tone of unrepentant corruption. He cheats people who come to him by selling them fake relics and granting them absolution for a price. He may have been a man of faith at one time, but his crimes and deeds have caught up to him, and he is now nothing more than a base criminal
The moral that Chaucer wants us to draw from the pardoners tale is "greed is the root of all evil," which the pardoner mentions in his introduction to his tale, when he is mocking his manipulation of the crowds he preaches too.
The moral of this story is "Greed is the root of all Evil"...in other words, "Death" didn't even need to be at the tree all "Death" needed to leave gold there because he knew that they would kill each other for the gold.
The greed for the money is the root of all evil.
moral evil is evil caused by humans Natural evil is caused by nature.
Let me put it this way. The bible says that the greed for the money is the root of all evil. In other words money is not at all evil, till you get to greedy.
It is the greed for the money that is the root of all evil.
There is no god of greed. Greed is greed. It was one of the evils that came from Pandora's box, touching every mortal and causing them to become evil. Greed caused people to be greedy.
The Pardoner wants the audience to draw the moral lesson that greed is the root of all evil. He emphasizes the destructive nature of greed and warns against the consequences of indulging in this sin. The Pardoner uses his tale as a means to manipulate and control his audience by exploiting their fears about the consequences of sinful behavior.
John Steinbeck compares the evil growing in the town to a disease or a cancer that spreads and corrupts everything it touches. He uses this metaphor to show how the negative influence of power and greed can permeate a community and destroy its moral integrity.
Greed