The Pardoner's Tale is a great example of how greed unfortunately prevails when something comes across a group of people. Three men, who have a common goal of finding gold, eventually kill each other despite their initial plan to work together to obtain it and share it. It is just another tale with the same underlying problem: greed. It is prevalent all throughout the world today. Fairy tales depict people who ruin the lives of others and eventually themselves over their greed from their jealously of the specific features of others. Rich people aim to own larger yachts than their counterparts, and people spend millions to have a chance at winning the lottery.
It seems that there just may be no point in having any stories that reference greed and its destructive effects, but in reality, these stories are crucial in the understanding of how society lives. Sure, all of the things mentioned happen all around us and all the time, but it takes a great story for people to actually realize that many of the actions taking place around them conflict with their moralities and even society's moralities as a whole. The greediness of people will persist (which is always at an all-time high right after Thanksgiving), but it takes a perspective-changing story to help the world realize that society still has almost infinite room for improvement.
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