Pardoner's Tale
There is a lot of irony in the short story, Pardoner's Tale, by Chaucer. First, the Pardoner is telling the story about greed being the root of all evil. He is an extremely greedy mad. He isn't honest either. It is a well known fact that he sells false artifacts around town.
Three friends are having a lovely night of drinking. They hear that a man they knew has died. That makes them furious. So, they decide to "kill death." The irony is that you cannot kill death. The man walk up to a tree and find a huge sum of money. While on of them goes to town to keep an eye on everyone, the other two plan to murder him as soon as he returns. Little do they know, he is getting poison while he is in town to kill the other two. When the man returns from town with the three glasses of wine, he gives the other two the poisoned one and drinks non poisoned wine with them. As soon as they are refreshed the other two jump on the third in hopes to kill him. In the end, all of them die.
Money and greed can do that to people. They were good friends, but decided to be greedy and they all died. The ironic part is that they swore to protect each others lives, but ended up killing each other.
