English Literature / Unit 4 ENL 0313 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Pardoner and His Tale
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The idea
The Pardoner carries pigs' bones in a glass as relics and preaches against greed for profit, his theme "Radix malorum est cupiditas," greed is the root of evil. His tale sends three young men to kill Death; they find gold under a tree, and murder one another.
In practice
A greedy preacher's tale against greed.
Where people slip
The irony is that he admits his fraud.
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