A Knight's Tale Vs History

A Knight's Tale seems some what accurate with history and the movie seems to make life as a commoner less terrible than it actually was. In the movie the commoners wore dirty clothing like the men seemed to wear dirty tunics and the women wore dirty clothing that seemed to look like a dress. They ate what seemed to be mutton, bread and some other foods. The jobs that commoners had in the movie were blacksmiths, merchants and Will's father looked like he was a weaver. Women seemed to be allowed to do the same jobs as men but were looked down upon just because they were women. A commoners house didn't seem too bad Wills father's house looked like it had two rooms such as a room where guests would enter and a bigger room where he would sleep, work and eat. …show more content…
The father seemed to have to have a house with more than one room and in one of those rooms the father would sleep, do his work and eat. In history families lived in houses but had to share them with other families and each family had one room where they did everything like sleep, cook, do work and eat. Houses were dim and smokey yet in the movie the houses seem to be well lit and no smoke inside of them. The nobles houses weren't showed a lot but from the little scenes that were shown they seemed about correct with history for example the rooms were big and decorated with tables, with cloths on them, candles and