ge Fivethe one that headed to town orders poison to kill the other two that remain watching the treasure. The end result is that all three of them die. The two brothers kill the one that came from town. In celebration they drink that food that the one from town has prepared for them laced with poison. This therefor brings about the concept that the Pardoner constantly brings about on his sermon. That is Radix malorum est Cupiditas. This means that all evil is from the desire of money. The evil here is the ultimate evil, money, and that leads to death (Cooper, 264).“The Pardoner’s Tale” is a contradiction. “His tale is intimately and permanently bound to him in contradiction. No other tale is so isolated and surrounded by the “game.” Certainly no other tale so articulate the hidden principle in its teller’s nature (Bloom, 25).” The tale that the pardoner tells is not identical to who he is. “The Tale also defeats his attempt, of course: simply by detaching itself and all its meanings from the influence of his personality (Bloom, 25).” The Pardoner has a God-given gift, the ability to talk beautifully. The Pardoner is a very articulate person. The more he talks, the more he mocks speech as a power for truth or falsehood. The deeper he leads us into his contradictory motivation (its animus is directed inwards and outwards at once) the more it baffles us, and tricks us out of the very Johann Cabe Page Sixjudgment with which his flatteries credit us. We are left with an exercise of power for unquestionable motives (Bloom, 31). Any man who does not use the God-given gifts as God had intended is a agent of the devil. As so the Pardoner believes that he is. The Pardoner described his own words as poisonous. As a churchman, he should employ his considerable speech skills in the service of God. Instead he sees himself as Satan’s agent, a serpent “stingingR...
