The Canterbury Tales, one of the most famous stories in the world, is a selection of tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English literature. The tales in the story were told by pilgrims as they travel their way to the burial place of Saint Thomas. The pilgrim with the best tale of all will have a free dinner. Examples of the tales written in the compilation are The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale, and The Knight’s Tale.
The story that got most of my attention is The Pardoner’s Tale. The tale was about 3 drunken thieves who were searching for Death, the murderer who killed their friend, to annihilate him. In pursuit of the killer, they encountered an old man who pointed out where Death is, at the foot of the groves. When the men arrived to the groves, they saw a bag of gold. They equally divided the gold among themselves. Then the youngest of the three left the woods to fetch food while the other two waited for him in the grove. While waiting, the two plotted to kill the youngest man so they can get hold of his gold bars. But the youngest man also has a plan of his own and that is to poison the other two. So he went to an apothecary and asked for poison and mixed it to the wine they will drink. When the youngest man returned, they immediately killed him. To celebrate their victory, they drank the wine the youngest man brought and died slowly because of the poison mixed in it. At the end, they all perished and none of them has succeeded in obtaining the bag of gold.
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I liked the story because it tells us how GREED can make people so bad, how a bag of gold made the three thieves killed each other. Let us not be tempted to commit bad things just to obtain material wealth.
You can read the whole story of The Pardoner’s Tale at www.sparknotes.com.
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