The story Pardoner’s Tale has several moments of irony in the story. But what is irony? Irony is when something is said in a story but is meant to be taken a complete different way. The three types of irony that i will be describing in this blog are killing death, seeking death, and greed.
The first irony in the story they talk about killing death. The quote from the story is, “And we will this traitor Death , I say!” The ironic part about what they say is that you can not kill death. They are trying to kill death because of how horrible of a thing it is. But later in the story that changes.
The second form of irony in the story is Seeking death. One of the character says, “ A pile of golden florins on the ground, New-coined, eight bushels of them as they thought. No longer was it Death those fellows sought.” The ironic thing about that quote is that now that they found all this money they are no longer looking for death. But we now from the story that something terrible happens to them at the end of the story.
The third and last irony in the story is greed. One of the three guys says, “Nevertheless, if i could shape things thus so that we shared it out-the two of us-Wouldn’t you take it as a friendly act?” The really meaning of this quote from the story is that the main character of the story is greedy. What is ironic about the quote is that it is saying the exact opposite of what the main character really is. But we all now that from story that what they were looking for in the begging of the story is going to come back on them.
At the end of the story we find out that all three of the guys die because of greed. They all wanted the money and were all looking to kill the other two guys to have the money to them self. The story affected the reader by showing them that not everything that someone says means exactly what they said.
