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

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 phantasmal pilgrimage. Three of these tales The Knights Tale, The Wife of Baths Tale, and The Franklins Tale, involve antithetic 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 all(prenominal) 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 Arcite notice towards Emily is so strong that the two knights feel that it is charge more than life. At one point Palomon says to Arcite, Though I dumbfound no weapon here . . . both you shall die or you shall non love Emily. The love that Palomon feels for Emily is so overwhelming that he is willing to pay off on an armed man, in mortal combat, just for the love of a woman. Perhaps he feels that without her he will surely die, so why not die trying to win her. The ironic fact nigh 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 prayer to Diana, the goddess of chaste, Well you know that I appetency to be a maiden all my life I neer want to be either a beloved or a wife. This is so ironic because Arcite and Palomon are about to kill each opposite 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 forced into a love relationship, which I feel could only lead to an unfulfilling relationship. Also in The Knights Tale , Arcite and Palomon are in love with a woman to whom they have never even talk to. This is hardly the basis for a strong and lasting relationship. Works Cited Bowden, Muriel. A Readers Guide to Geoffrey Chaucer. New 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 life-sustaining Views on Geoffrey Chaucer. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York Chelsea House Publishers, 1995. Patterson, Lee. Chaucer and the Subject of History. Wisconsin The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991