A Comparison of Love in The Knights Tale, Wife of Baths...

Love in The Knights Tale, Wife of Baths Tale, and Franklins Tale The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer around 1386, is a collection 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 love and different love relationships. Some of the loves are based on nobility, some are forced and some are based on mutual respect for each partner. My idea of love is one that combines aspects from each of the tales told in The Canterbury Tales. In The Knights Tale, the love between the two knights and Emily is intensely powerful. The love that Palomon and†¦show more content†¦When Palomon and Arcite are in jail Palomon says, The Beauty of the lady whom I see wandering yonder in the garden is the cause of all my cries and woes. This is not something That I would want to base my ideal love on. These two knights are willing to risk their lives for the love of this woman, whom they have never even met. For all they know she could be the most annoying person on earth. In that case they would be risking their lives, only to spend the rest of it with a beautiful and extremely annoying woman. In The Wife of Baths Tale A knight is forced to marry a wretched old woman to avoid death. The knight and the old woman do not get along well, and when the old woman suggests that she can make things better, the knight responds saying, Corrected? . . . It will never be corrected! You are so loathsome and old. A love relationship such as this could never last because their is no attraction, physical or mental. A major factor in love is physical attraction between the two partners, here their is no attraction. Two people cannot love each other if they cant stand to be around each other. The knight can hardly bare to look at his wife, let alone sleep with her. Despite the fact that the knight despises her, the old woman persists on getting the knight to love her, whichShow MoreRelatedFigurative Language and the Canterbury Tales13472 Words   |  54 Pagessnouts toward the rim of the hills, the planes raked the underbrush with gunfire. †¢ ..and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. -Abraham Lincoln 11. aubade: a poem about dawn; a morning love-song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn 12. ballad: a song, transmitted orally, which tells a story. Usually narrator begins with a climactic or traumatic episode, tells the story tersely by means of action and dialogue and tells it without