The Pardoner's Tale does an excellent job demonstrating how one should not easily trust another no matter how much of a bond or common interest exists between you and that person/group. In the Pardoner's Tale, three men are brought together by the common desire of wanting a glorious title. They try to find death and earn the right to say they have defeated what most people fear. This goal of theirs made them think they could trust each other because ultimately, they needed each other in order to find the death. However, they become distracted when they think about all the gold that will be left behind when they do indeed kill Death. They soon turn on each other because of greed and realizing they each want all of the gold to themselves.
Greed is a highlighted idea in this tale. It shows you how greed is normally the root of all evil. The three men originally sought out to take care of each other, but once the idea of having a whole sack of gold to themselves came to mind, they threw all that out the window. In the case of the tale, the men were so greedy they thought of murdering as a solution to who would be left with the money. The irony is they all end up dying in the end. I guess the message in that ending was if you commit evil acts, there will be consequences to face. Although this is a tale, therefore fictional, greed over money is an everyday thing. Greed is actually the source of a lot of bad traits and evil acts and I believe that's what the author wanted to convey.
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