The Irony of The Pardoner's Tale

The Irony of The Pardoner's Tale

By:Trey Stewart

     In the Pardoner's tale there is a lot of irony and also greed.The three most important things of irony a in the story are trying to kill death, being friendly by killing a friend, and the most important one is the story teller talking about how greed is bad when he is greedy himself.

     How can you kill death when death can't be killed. In the Pardoner's tale three men that are good friends set out to try to kill death. What is wrong with these three friends thinking they can kill death can we believe that they drank to much.That is what is very ironic about the beginning of the story.

     Then the three friends come across money under a tree and at first they think about splitting the money three ways.One of the friends decide to go into town to get supplies for the money.While he is gone the other two decide they are going to kill him when he comes back. Then they both think it is a friendly act to kill a friend that is very ironic.Little do they know that the one friend plans on poisoning them by putting poison in there drinks.That is how greed can cause friends to want to  kill each other in such a way.

     In the Pardoner's tale it explains how greed can cause bad things to happen.The most ironic thing in the story is the person telling the story is greedy himself.The Pardoner would tell people he had valuable relics under his pillow. The hole point of the story is how greed is bad when the Pardoner is the greediest one of them all that is very ironic.

     That is how greed and irony is used in the Pardoner's tale. The Pardoner's Tale is a prime example of irony and greed.