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This is an explanation of the genre of the Pardoner's Tale.

The Pardoner's tale is a morality tale.

This reminds us of a fable and folk tale, there are no talking animals but there is still a moral at the end of the story, there are common happenings with common people; 'Where was the leader of the gang?' and 'They eat and drink and start to gamble...' or 'if you go looking for Death- don't be surprised if you find him!'

The Pardoner's Tale is a morality tale, because it has similarities to a folk tale as it has common people, and common happenings, but it also reminds us of a fable, as it has a moral. This tale has different versions as it is partly a folktale as they usually are passed mouth by mouth, so they get changed over the years of them spreading though countries or even continents. the moral at the end of this story is that 'if you go looking for Death- don't be surprised if you find him!' this simply means that if you try to find 'him' (death with personification) that you will die. Morals make sure that this way a human reader can associate with the story. Morals at the end of stories make you think about your actions and what you do, but also teach you a lesson. They usually say if you do something, this will happen. Morality tales are a good balance between something that teaches you a lesson but shows real life circumstances instead of animals acting out  humans.

In this tale Tom, Dick and harry prove that being greedy and evil is really bad and teaches us a good lesson about not being greedy and putting others before our selves. Therefore the Pardoner's Tale is a Morality Tale.