Compare and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales
... more of the money to themselves. In the moral of the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”, the moral is not to believe everything one tells you. This is true because in the “Pardoner’s Tale”, the two men greet the third who is coming back from town, and start play-fighting. The third man thinks they are playing with him, so he plays along, and the other two men eventually murder him, and then are poisoned by the wine he had brought back from town. But in the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”, there are a number of places where this is true. One of those places is in the end, where the fox is waiting to grab Chanticleer and Chanticleer is about to crow, but stops and the fox says no, go ahead. So Chanticleer crows and the fox grabs him. But with comparisons, there are also contrasts. One contrast in the two tales is that in the “Pardoner’s Tale”, there is greed intertwined throughout the whole tale....