The idea of marriage has changed over time, at one time it meant the man having
whichever girl he so choose and the girl had no choice, at one time it meant money and ranking,
now it means if “love” one another. During the medieval times the women had no say the man
would pick her and she would marry him most of the time without really knowing him. Chaucer
the author of Canterbury Tales explains this process in the tales of his book. In today’s world
choice of marriage is a common thing but in the medieval times it was quite a different
experience as theses three stories will tell you.
The very first story Chaucer writes he tells of two knights, Arcite and Palamon, cousins
who are band to prison for the rest of their life. They had …show more content…
Emily’s brother-in-law had chosen this for her without
her ok. Emily did not know either one of these men but they were fighting over which one would
marry her. She did not even want to marry she was a women who was well off and did not have
to marry because she was so high in society. The night before the big fight she prayed to the
goddess Diana “You know I do not want to be a mistress or a bride” (Chaucer, 47), Diana told
her that she would have to marry whichever won the battle. Emily had no choice but to marry
whichever one won the fight. This is just one story of the kind of marriage in the medieval times.
Another tale told about sounded kind of like a Cinderella story. There was a young man
named Walter who was a ruler of a vast amount of land, he loved hunting and hawking but he
did not prepare for the future and sometimes let his duty slide. One day the people of his town
came to him and said that he needed to think about the future that eventually he would die and
that he would be no one to take his place unless the married. Walter said, “I see your true
purpose, and I trust, as I always have in your good sense… I shall agree to marry as soon as
whichever girl he so choose and the girl had no choice, at one time it meant money and ranking,
now it means if “love” one another. During the medieval times the women had no say the man
would pick her and she would marry him most of the time without really knowing him. Chaucer
the author of Canterbury Tales explains this process in the tales of his book. In today’s world
choice of marriage is a common thing but in the medieval times it was quite a different
experience as theses three stories will tell you.
The very first story Chaucer writes he tells of two knights, Arcite and Palamon, cousins
who are band to prison for the rest of their life. They had …show more content…
Emily’s brother-in-law had chosen this for her without
her ok. Emily did not know either one of these men but they were fighting over which one would
marry her. She did not even want to marry she was a women who was well off and did not have
to marry because she was so high in society. The night before the big fight she prayed to the
goddess Diana “You know I do not want to be a mistress or a bride” (Chaucer, 47), Diana told
her that she would have to marry whichever won the battle. Emily had no choice but to marry
whichever one won the fight. This is just one story of the kind of marriage in the medieval times.
Another tale told about sounded kind of like a Cinderella story. There was a young man
named Walter who was a ruler of a vast amount of land, he loved hunting and hawking but he
did not prepare for the future and sometimes let his duty slide. One day the people of his town
came to him and said that he needed to think about the future that eventually he would die and
that he would be no one to take his place unless the married. Walter said, “I see your true
purpose, and I trust, as I always have in your good sense… I shall agree to marry as soon as