A Comparison of Love in The Knights Tale, Wife of Baths Tale, and Fra

Love in The Knights narrative, wife of Baths Tale, and Franklins Tale The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer around 1386, is a compendium of tales told by pilgrims on a religious pilgrimage. Three of these tales The Knights Tale, The Wife of Baths Tale, and The Franklins Tale, involve different kinds of roll in the hay and different love relationships. Some of the loves be based on nobility, some are agonistic and some are based on mutual respect for severally partner. My idea of love is unmatchable that combines aspects from each of the tales told in The Canterbury Tales. In The Knights Tale, the love between the cardinal knights and Emily is intensely powerful. The love that Palomon and Arcite feel towards Emily is so strong that the two knights feel that it is worth more than life. At one point Palomon says to Arcite, Though I have no weapon here . . . all you shall die or you shall not love Emily. The love that Palomon feels for Emily is so ov erwhelming that he is willing to take on an armed man, in mortal combat, just for the love of a womanhood. Perhaps he feels that without her he will surely die, so why not die nerve-wracking to win her. The ironic fact about the relationship between the two knights and Emily is that Emily does not wish to marry either of the knights. she expresses this in a plea to Diana, the goddess of chaste, Well you know that I desire to be a maiden all my life I never want to be either a near or a wife. This is so ironic because Arcite and Palomon are about to kill each other for her love and she doesnt want to beloved by either of them. She enjoys the thrills of maiden ho... ... Wife of Baths Tale the knight is compel into a love relationship, which I feel could only lead to an unfulfilling relationship. in addition in The Knights Tale , Arcite and Palomon are in love with a woman to whom they have never even spoken to. This is hardly the basis for a strong and lasting r elationship. Works Cited Bowden, Muriel. A Readers Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. unfermented York Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964. Howard, Edwin J. Geoffrey Chaucer. New York Twayne Publishers, In., 1964. Justman, Stewart. Love in The Canterbury Tales. Modern Critical Views on Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York Chelsea kinsperson Publishers, 1995. Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Wisconsin The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991