Changing of the Times
The Canterbury Tales were first written in 1392, and published in 1475, was the beginning of many controversial issues that would appear over the next seven centuries. Author and Middle Englishmen Geoffrey Chaucer was a noble man and controller of the customs and the justice of peace in 1386. So much has changed from the then to now that we even use a different calendar system then what they would use! More of a representation of what the times were like and how they’ve changed was marriage and the changing of the church, something shown in the Canterbury tales: The Pardoners Tale, the Millers Tale, and the Wife of Bath’s Tale. Characters and their choices are different from what is traditionally and modernly expected …show more content…
In this tale, a young beautiful woman is desired by two scholar men even though she has a hard-working husband. The young beautiful wife however, yearns for something more than just her marriage, and falls victim to lust for these younger and handsome men. The prized flaw in this story is that it not only shows what marriages were like back then, but also shows what it is modernly like. Modern day marriages, are torn from the foundation that is supposed to be firm because of the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. This is apparent just by taking a look around us and the media. Everyone knows about the Kardashians or the Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. Cyrus and Hemsworth were married until Cyrus wanted something more and was always pushing herself to be the best in the music industry, and she was too prideful in her flaws, that it got in the way of her marriage and tore it up. Adultery obviously is the bigger flaw in the Millers tale, and is the third of the seven deadly sins, but it relates to so much more than just the time because it is still apparent in the moment that we live
The Canterbury Tales were first written in 1392, and published in 1475, was the beginning of many controversial issues that would appear over the next seven centuries. Author and Middle Englishmen Geoffrey Chaucer was a noble man and controller of the customs and the justice of peace in 1386. So much has changed from the then to now that we even use a different calendar system then what they would use! More of a representation of what the times were like and how they’ve changed was marriage and the changing of the church, something shown in the Canterbury tales: The Pardoners Tale, the Millers Tale, and the Wife of Bath’s Tale. Characters and their choices are different from what is traditionally and modernly expected …show more content…
In this tale, a young beautiful woman is desired by two scholar men even though she has a hard-working husband. The young beautiful wife however, yearns for something more than just her marriage, and falls victim to lust for these younger and handsome men. The prized flaw in this story is that it not only shows what marriages were like back then, but also shows what it is modernly like. Modern day marriages, are torn from the foundation that is supposed to be firm because of the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. This is apparent just by taking a look around us and the media. Everyone knows about the Kardashians or the Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth. Cyrus and Hemsworth were married until Cyrus wanted something more and was always pushing herself to be the best in the music industry, and she was too prideful in her flaws, that it got in the way of her marriage and tore it up. Adultery obviously is the bigger flaw in the Millers tale, and is the third of the seven deadly sins, but it relates to so much more than just the time because it is still apparent in the moment that we live