The Decameron Summary

Sexual relationships are highlighted in the stories. The Decameron is expressed on salacity of women. For example, in the first story on the Third Day , Masetto, who hears that there is a job as an orchardman in an abbey.Masetto learning that a part of the job's responsibility is to satisfy the priestesses of the abbey sexually, acts as if he is deaf for cheating the abbess ,so that she employs him and he foolishly believes that his lust is more than the lust of all the abbey filled with priestesses. But, Masetto receives more than what he anticipates and he finally becomes the only sexual object of the abbey full of priestesses. Masetto is oppressed by this evident amount of sexual desire and says: “I can’t bear this any longer.So please let me go, for God’s sake” (Decameron,103). Masetto’s rebellion …show more content…
The priest is accomplished in bamboozling Belcolore to shag with him in the story, and cheats on Belcolore to abstain from having any incumbencies to her. Afterwards, she stops talking to him making the monk frightful. The monk enrages and threatened, Belcolore by cursing that she will enter into hell . Boccaccio makes it clear that the monk can think of no plan to alleviate Belcolore’s anger other than threatening her with the expectation of purgatory. Nevertheless, this way is cruel due to its nature, it gives the feeling that Boccaccio believes men can be triumphant by improper ways and not by using judgement in a more superior way. When a male victory takes place, it is generally achieved fraudulently and not by virtue of supremacy trickery, as the women of Decameron do, as shown in the stories. Various narrators compare both male and female attempts at these features in the stories, in order to provide a reference by which the genders are compared and in each case, the women are