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Many people say that money is the ultimate motivator, that money will drive anyone to do anything for the right price. However, who is to say that there isn't a power greater than that? Information, which is interchangeable with knowledge, is the true driving force behind almost all of the events that happen in the world, both fictional and real. Without the knowledge of wealth to be gained there is no driving force behind money. In the story, The Pardoner's Tale, the trio of men never had a clue of the wealth they could obtain until someone, namely Death, informed them of it. In Paradise Lost the information that Satan provides Eve of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil drives Eve to made a decision that leads to the fall of Man. Even in the story, Twelfth Night, the power rests in the hands of Sir Andrew and Sir Toby who use the information that they've obtained to manipulate and bend the will of Malvolio to their design.
In the case of The Pardoner's Tale, three men, drunkards and gamblers, are informed of the demise of one of their friends at the hands of a mysterious person ...

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