In Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Franklin’s Tale” two married women,
Alisoun and Dorigen importuned and wooed by lover. In “The Miller’s Tale”, Alisoun personifies the beauty and exuberance of nature; she is “wylde and young” (line 117)
This characterization experiences sexual pleasure as a creature of nature without worrying about the restrictions of marriage and desire for sex in a human frailty.
Meanwhile, in “The Franklin’s Tale”, Dorigen shows virtuous woman of the late middle ages by keeping her marriage vow. When she encounters her dilemmas between her marital vow and rash promise she demonstrates the difficulties for women in unwanted sexual relations by considering suicide or dishonor. Based on Duby’s courtly model and …show more content…
Alisoun is john’s young and beautiful wife and Nicholas’s lover. She is object of sexual desire as a young wife of John. John the carpenter is in old age and has taken a young wife as his desire of “the chance to establish a household of their own” (Duby). Meanwhile, Alisoun found her desire of sexual pleasure by a young man,
Nicholas, who is naturally and sexually more suited for Alisoun. She acts like the queen in chess like George Duby’s Courtly Model. “…use her body in any way she wished that was where her power ended.” Alisoun’s thinks that the desire for sex is not a sin as a human and she desires for joy and make her a rural figure. Alisoun motly described as an animal. “Hir mouth was sweete as bragot or the meeth,/Or hoord of apples leyd in hey or heath./Wynsynge she was, as is a joly colt,” (line 153-55). This animalization decription revelas Alisoun’s desire is not a human frailty, and not following Lacan’s passage that our desire is not something innate inside us. Lacan claimes that “We are always asking the Other what he desires”. Alisoun’s desire is not in the second degree, and she
Alisoun and Dorigen importuned and wooed by lover. In “The Miller’s Tale”, Alisoun personifies the beauty and exuberance of nature; she is “wylde and young” (line 117)
This characterization experiences sexual pleasure as a creature of nature without worrying about the restrictions of marriage and desire for sex in a human frailty.
Meanwhile, in “The Franklin’s Tale”, Dorigen shows virtuous woman of the late middle ages by keeping her marriage vow. When she encounters her dilemmas between her marital vow and rash promise she demonstrates the difficulties for women in unwanted sexual relations by considering suicide or dishonor. Based on Duby’s courtly model and …show more content…
Alisoun is john’s young and beautiful wife and Nicholas’s lover. She is object of sexual desire as a young wife of John. John the carpenter is in old age and has taken a young wife as his desire of “the chance to establish a household of their own” (Duby). Meanwhile, Alisoun found her desire of sexual pleasure by a young man,
Nicholas, who is naturally and sexually more suited for Alisoun. She acts like the queen in chess like George Duby’s Courtly Model. “…use her body in any way she wished that was where her power ended.” Alisoun’s thinks that the desire for sex is not a sin as a human and she desires for joy and make her a rural figure. Alisoun motly described as an animal. “Hir mouth was sweete as bragot or the meeth,/Or hoord of apples leyd in hey or heath./Wynsynge she was, as is a joly colt,” (line 153-55). This animalization decription revelas Alisoun’s desire is not a human frailty, and not following Lacan’s passage that our desire is not something innate inside us. Lacan claimes that “We are always asking the Other what he desires”. Alisoun’s desire is not in the second degree, and she