The Canterbury Tales is a set of romantic, humorous, and ironic stories that provide a life lesson in the end. Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of The Canterbury Tales, portrayed these tales in their own unique ways from using different characters to make fun of each other and then writing another tale to get back at them to simply just showing his point of view on people. Chaucer is definitely selective in the types of people he prefers; while he is a feminist all the way, he cannot stand the religious class. His views on people are show straight through the tales he wrote; including, The Knight’s Tales, The Wife of Bath 's Tale, The Summoner’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, The Reeve’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale, and a few more that were not read in
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To start off, the first of the tales in the Canterbury Tales was the Knight’s Tale. The Knight’s Tale included three men and a woman; the Knight, Theseus, captured two men, Arcite and Palamon, and put them in jail where they both fell in love with Emily. In the end, the three people in the love triangle got what they wanted; however, Arcite ended up dieing and Palamon had to suffer many years in jail before marrying Emily, as Emily had no harm done to her. Emily she just had to marry someone she hardly knew, but this was not so bad for her though because she wished to marry the one who loved her the most, and she did; “and Emily loves him so tenderly, and he serves her just so gently, that there had never been between them a word of jealousy or any other vexation” (Chaucer 2245-2248). The moral of this story is “be careful what you wish for.” Next, the Miller’s Tale was about three men, John, Nick, and Absalom, whom all got humiliated at some point and a woman, Allison, who encountered no humiliation at all. John got tricked and became a cuckold- a man whose wife has cheated on him, Nick got a hot iron to his butt, Absalom got farted in his face, and Allison just got to sit back and watch it all happen. The outcome of this tale is showed as Chaucer says, “They...turned all his misfortune into a joke, for whatever the carpenter said in answer. it did not good: no one listened to his explanation...Thus was the carpenter’s wife screwed, in spite of all his guarding and jealousy; and Absalon has kissed her lower eye; and Nicholas is scalded on the bum: this tale is done, and God save all the company” (Chaucer 655-668)! The overall lesson of this tale is to not be gullible and think before you act. Ultimately, the Miller’s Tale made fun of a carpenter, the Reeve, leading to the Reeve’s
To start off, the first of the tales in the Canterbury Tales was the Knight’s Tale. The Knight’s Tale included three men and a woman; the Knight, Theseus, captured two men, Arcite and Palamon, and put them in jail where they both fell in love with Emily. In the end, the three people in the love triangle got what they wanted; however, Arcite ended up dieing and Palamon had to suffer many years in jail before marrying Emily, as Emily had no harm done to her. Emily she just had to marry someone she hardly knew, but this was not so bad for her though because she wished to marry the one who loved her the most, and she did; “and Emily loves him so tenderly, and he serves her just so gently, that there had never been between them a word of jealousy or any other vexation” (Chaucer 2245-2248). The moral of this story is “be careful what you wish for.” Next, the Miller’s Tale was about three men, John, Nick, and Absalom, whom all got humiliated at some point and a woman, Allison, who encountered no humiliation at all. John got tricked and became a cuckold- a man whose wife has cheated on him, Nick got a hot iron to his butt, Absalom got farted in his face, and Allison just got to sit back and watch it all happen. The outcome of this tale is showed as Chaucer says, “They...turned all his misfortune into a joke, for whatever the carpenter said in answer. it did not good: no one listened to his explanation...Thus was the carpenter’s wife screwed, in spite of all his guarding and jealousy; and Absalon has kissed her lower eye; and Nicholas is scalded on the bum: this tale is done, and God save all the company” (Chaucer 655-668)! The overall lesson of this tale is to not be gullible and think before you act. Ultimately, the Miller’s Tale made fun of a carpenter, the Reeve, leading to the Reeve’s