Differences Between The Faulin's Tale And The Canterbury Tales

To eat or not to eat. In this battle of concocted tales, this is where it all boils down to. Both the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath have surely produced fine stories, each with their own charm; however, it will not be a battle without a clear winner—only one can enjoy a free meal. Although the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” tapped into a strong topic—gender equality—it only stated that women want to be equal to men as well, but never delved in deeper. The story even disregards the problem at hand: a knight who raped a girl and got away scot-free, even finding himself a beautiful and loyal wife. If the story went differently, the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” has all the components of a great story. Meanwhile, the “Pardoner’s Tale”, although short, successfully showed the corruptness that humans have, as well as the consequences if ever one finds themselves stuck in greed’s vice grip. Therefore, the Pardoner’s tale is better than the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” because it delves into the darkness of humanity, the consequences when one has dug themselves too deep and shows how, despite people knowing the result of their misconduct, will still choose to sink further into darkness.

Adapting to someone’s piece of art like this is like taking a craft, and altering it or to build off it to produce a new piece of art. Sometimes adaptation mimics the original piece. Other times the resemblance is so slight that it can be considered completely stray from the plot and theme.

In Canterbury Tales a narrator and twenty nine pilgrims company each other on their way to Canterbury. As they're on their way the narrator decides that they need to entertain each other with stories. It will be a contest so whoever he judges to be the best storyteller will receive a meal at the tavern. All stories will deal with either greed and corruption, social rank, or gender relationships. The pilgrims draw straws and decide that the knight will go first. In the Pardoner´s Tale three men are on the hunt for a mysterious figure named Death. As they are traveling down the road they meet an old man who says he has been waiting for Death himself; he then directs the three drunken men to where Death is. The three men followed his directions and ended up in a grove under an oak tree but Death was not to be found, only eight

Like Arthur Dimmesdale in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hazel punishes himself physically for his sins. Arthur whips and starves himself, causing himself bodily harm as an act of repentance to receive redemption for the crime of having a child with Hester Prynne. Hazel blinds himself as punishment for his actions late in the book. Both are religiously driven, but Arthur is devoted to God, while Hazel punishes himself from habit of his youth lessons rather than his current beliefs.

In “The Franklin’s Tale,” Dorigen marries Arviragus and he promises to be true to her and never take an authoritarian role over her. Dorigen promises that in return she will be his humble true wife and will give him his sovereignty. Arviragus gives Dorigen power in the relationship and has dominion. Arviragus demonstrates courtly love because he serves her in a way that allows freedom. “The Franklin’s Tale” states,

“The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale,” two of the many stories in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, portray many similarities on the views of love, marriage, and immorality. Both “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale” portray what love truly means to the Miller and the Reeve. Chaucer’s two tales also exemplify the unfaithfulness of the wives to their vows of marriage. Additionally, the stories share corresponding similarities in the many instances of dishonesty and immoral features of the male characters. Throughout The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer illustrates to the reader the true characteristics of the Miller and the Reeve by using the aspect of morality to show their related views on love and women.

The Canterbury Tales is a piece of writing containing 24 tales covering around 18,000 lines done by Geoffrey Chaucer. Some of the stories that are part of The Canterbury Tales include the Miller’s Tale and the Knight’s Tale. Considering the two stories, we can see the similarity in the plot that lets them be compared. Additionally, the differences in imagery and the choice of words make the two tales stand out even though they are also different in a way. In both tales, the characters resemble one another in several ways. In the Miller’s Tale, the characters were made out to be crude and naïve while the characters in the Knight’s Tale were proper and elegant within their actions and speech. Although the two stories have outstanding imagery,

Merchants Tale and how Chaucer portrays Irony (1-27) As with a number of the Canterbury tales, the prologue to “The Merchant’s Tale,” is of significant to Chaucer’s ironic and sarcastic comments in the rest of the tale, it sets up the merchant’s views on women, and marriage in particular, as set out in the prologue which allow us to recognise the irony throughout his tale. This allows us to see the way in which the Merchant is telling his tale, for example ‘thilke blissful lyf’ might seem an innocent enough comment to make for one knowing so little about marriage as January, yet we could pick up the dripping sarcasm of this comment said by the merchant in January’s place. By comparing the prologue with the opening of the tale, the reader can

‘The Merchants Tale’s’ narrator is the Merchant who has been married for a little over two months. According to Stephanie A. Tolliver, critics have painted him as ‘a disillusioned man full of hatred and contempt’. His marriage is a disaster and therefore we are presented with a bitter view on the story of Januarie and May. The poem is a tale within a tale and we are given three perspectives in all. Chaucer, the poet, The Merchant the omniscient narrator and the protagonists Januarie, May and Damyan. The view of marriage presented in the tale is a very negative one with the wives being at fault. Many have called the tale to be anti- feminist and critics have discussed the negative presentation of May throughout the centuries. In ‘On Chesil Beach’ the relationship of a newlywed couple is represented through the use of the third person. Both Florence and Edward believed that the promise of marriage would bring them what they most desired, ‘Their marriage, they

The Canterbury Tales has many tales that have great meaning that is told in their own special way, depending on the reader's understanding of the tales. I chose to compare and contrast The Prioress's Tale and The Cook's Tale. What makes these two tales the same, but different in their own way? Of course, the common answer would be the tales are written by the same author, but they are told by different people. These stories have in common that the main characters do what they love, and the theme is to stay true to yourself. The main differences between the two tales are that the characters are from different generations, they are different kinds of genre, and the role of wrongdoing. With the tales being told the way the author wrote it, the

A fabliau is aptly categorized as a scandalous tale meant to satirize the bourgeois through the depiction of bourgeois characters. This is the genre Chaucer writes “The Miller’s Tale,” from his The Canterbury Tales, in so he can distinguish the social class levels of the people on the pilgrimage. Chaucer shows us the differences by paralleling then transforming certain aspects of this fabliau with the same elements of the chivalric romance of the “Knight’s Tale.”

Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare are two extremely famous English writers. The Canterbury Tales is Chaucer’s best known work. Chaucer had initially planned to have each character tell four stories, two on their way to Canterbury and two on their way back. In actuality, The Canterbury Tales is only made up of twenty four tales and ends before the characters make it to Canterbury. It is also often under debate whether the tales were in the correct order as the tales are varied in order. Despite these uncertainties, The Canterbury Tales is known for its beautiful rhythm and Chaucer’s clever use of satire. Geoffrey Chaucer then died October 25th, 1400 of unknown causes at sixty years of age (www.biography.com). Shakespeare then began to write around the year 1590, and over two decades he wrote almost forty plays revolving around several main themes: histories, tragedies, comedies and tragicomedies. The Tempest was one of Shakespeare’s famous comedies and is thought to be his last play even though it is known that he wrote other plays before he died in approximately 1616 (www.biography.com). Within The Canterbury Tales, there is a character called the Wife of Bath who is an exaggeration of a certain archetype of a woman, she is sexual, liberated and certainly not coy. Whereas, within the Tempest there is a woman named Miranda who could be seen as the opposite, she is chaste and does what she is told. Although the character of the Wife of Bath is the forerunner of the

Before Geoffrey Chaucer could write The Canterbury Tales, he needed a reason to write them. That reason was the history of Canterbury. Everything comes with a past, but like most of English history, Canterbury has an engrossing history attached to the name. This includes brown-nosing, jealousy, and murder. Everything that is usually associated with a church.

Who will win this Canterbury Tales Brawl. They are competing to win a meal from the host who is the judge of this story telling contest. These stories were very different which could cause the host to have a difficult time comparing them. The criteria that will be used is moral of story, is it morally sound, and the hosts reaction and comments.

Given the time when this works are written, people then have a very good sense of their religion, upholding the standards of their time. In contrast, people committed acts that are considered immoral, like adultery. In this tale the storyteller built the idea that one should not tell the truth if it only hurts the other, which could possibly worsen the situation.