The Knight's Tale

respect toward their gender or group. Geoffrey Chaucer’s view on women in The Canterbury Tales is greatly satirized allowing him to be seen as chauvinistic. The women in the tales are told about in a different manner than the men. The women throughout are shown as strong and powerful; but also express a quality that men fear in the end and cause their downfall. Chaucer talks about women in many of the tales and expresses them in some way of love but he also conveys women as a form of property,…

The Franklin's Tale is full of characters that represent a high quality of behavior. The character that I believe represents the highest quality of behavior is Aurelius. Aurelius is a squire and one of the most handsome men alive. He has been in love with Dorigen for two years. Dorigen is the wife of the knight Arveragus. Aurelius believes that he can be as noble as knight so that Dorigen will love him back. Throughout the story Aurelius tries to show Dorigen he is noble like a knight.…

In the Canterbury Tales, the reader is quickly introduced to the game of the host. The Host’s game takes place during the pilgrims’ journey to see the shrine of Thomas A. Becket, and involves each pilgrim telling their own tale in any manner they would like to give. The first tale presented to the host is the Knight’s tale. A noble tale about a wise king. Another tale offered to the host is the Pardoner’s tale. This tale was much more obscure and would require the listener to pay a much closer…

own stories in The Canterbury Tales, as seen in the Reeve’s Tale working off of and following immediately after The Miller’s Tale. Similarly, The Friar’s Tale closely parallels and also follows right after The Wife of Bath’s Tale. Chaucer aligns these two tales to enforce the point that they should not be interpreted separately, but rather they should be accepted as an entire unit. And by implementing textual similarities, Chaucer blurs the lines between the two tales while concurrently creating…

Canterbury Tales: A Comparison of The Miller’s Tale and The Merchant’s Tale The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, is a collection of stories, allegedly told to Chaucer by a band of travelers while making a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. Each story contains different plots, characters, influences, and storytelling devices. However, at least every tale is connected to another, either by contrast, theme, or story teller. Two of the tales, The Miller’s Tale and The Merchant’s Tale…

people around them. Also the Canterbury tales have changed in the way of many authors creating books with many stories in one. They have created this idea from the Canterbury tales. For example, “The Canterbury Tales, in any case, and would certainly have encountered the Decameron at least indirectly, if not in its pristine form” (The Canterbury/121). The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is more similar to the Canterbury Tales than any other work. Like the Tales, it features a number of…

In The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer illustrates the medieval society. The Prologue is an introduction to the thirty-one characters, who go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. The people in pilgrimage want to visit the relics of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Two of these characters are the Knight and the Squire. The Knight is the father of the Squire, and they both are warriors and gentleman, who ride their horses gallantly. Even though they have these similarities…

story? The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories put together into one narrative. In this story, the characters go on pilgrimage. While on this pilgrimage they are to tell stories, with one being the winner. In order to be the winner, the Host get to be the judge of it, your tale has to be entertaining as well as morally sound. Both “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale” tell embarrassing stories about one another. When the Miller tells his tale to all of the…

Geoffery Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest literary works in the history of English literature, as his tales captured the vernacular and societal structure of the Middle Ages in Europe. Before his time, most literature were either written in languages of royalty and nobility such as Latin or French, further promoting a disconnection from the common people. One of his most notable stories of the anthology would be The Knights’ Tale. Chaucer’s personal experience, his use of…

To be honorable simply is to earn high respect. Honor was established as an admirable and precious gift long before Geoffrey Chaucer and his The Canterbury Tales, as Publilius Syrus of the 1st century B.C. once questioned “What is left when honor is lost?” (Stolinsky). This question, although pondered long before the mid 1300’s, was depicted within the chivalric code, with honor being one important attribute that knights were expected to retain. In our day and age, honor is typically displayed…