In the book, The Canterbury Tales, the author, Geoffrey Chaucer, demonstrates his negative perspective on love and institution of marriage. “The Knight’s Tale” and “The Miller’s Tale” enhance the sense that Chaucer does not appreciate the idea of love and marriage. Both stories contain a love triangle and neither marriage was dependent on true love or treated with the appropriate respect. In “The Knight’s Tale”, two imprisoned, sworn brothers, Palamon and Arcita, are in love with the same woman, Emily, whom they watch out the window every day. One day Arcita, freed on the condition that he banishes from Athens, becomes love-sick from being so far away from Emily, returns to Athens. When Arcita returns he runs into Palamon who has escaped,
