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The ideals of love in the Knight's Tale are completely different than those of the Wife of Bath's Tale. In The Knight's Tale love is not based on emotion or a person's personality. Men "fall in love" with the beauty and status of a woman. They are not concerned with the feelings of women either; women had no voice in who they would marry. However in the Wife of Bath's Tale the ugly woman takes control and gets to marry the knight she tricked into marriage. The similarities in the two tales are, like Tyler mentioned, the fights and distance the men and woman are willing to go for the love of another.

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The ideas of courtly love in A Knight's Tale and those in The Wife of Bath Tale have few similarities. In a Knight's Tale, the two men fall in love with a girl simply because of her beauty. They risk death to win favor with her knowing one of them will die. Emily doesn't want to marry but she obeys Diana, God of Chastity, when she informs her that she will be with one of the men. As Jonathan says, Emily "is treated as a prize to be won by a man of low status who wins a duel". Whereas in The Wife of Bath, women are more powerful. The queen demands an answer to the question, "What do women want most?" from a knight, if he wishes to have his own life. He is given a year and a day before presenting his final answer to the queen. When his time is up, he still has no answer, until he comes upon an old hag. She makes a deal with him. If she answers this question then he must pledge his life to her and so he does. It turns out that he must marry her and he is upset because she is an old ugly hag. Instead of taking offense to this, she asks him if he would rather have her ugly and loyal or young and unfaithful. The knight allows her the authority to make the decision (what all women want most). She is pleased by this and becomes both beautiful and good and they live a happy marriage. The Knight's Tale is an example of what women were expected to be while the Wife of Bath's Tale allows women more power.

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The ideas of courtly love in a Knight's Tale and those in The

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The ideas of courtly love in a palace verses a village differ extremely. Between The Kights Tale and the Wife of Bath there was an idea that men held a dominance over women. The men also held an attitude of entitlement. In The Knights Tale two men felt that since they loved Emily in all of her beauty the winner of a battle could "win" her love. There is no romance or chemistry in a tale like that, only selfish ambition. In The Wife of Bath a man was put on a yearlong search to the question: what is it that a woman most desires in her man. In his travels Chaucer suggested the idea of love and romance in a marriage through many villager's answers. The man found an older woman who provided him the best answer to the question which was equality. The woman accompanied him to court where they were forced to be wed. A difference in the tales are the types of women they were forced to marry. One woman was beautiful while the other was older. A similarity is that in both of the tales both couples ended up happily every after, even after being forced into marriage. Chaucer clearly demonstrated women's desire for equality in a relationship as a wish by women but not one that would be fulfilled.

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In the Knight's Tale the two knights are both in love with the maiden even know they don't know her like Brandon said. In the Wife of Bath's tale the knight is forced to be married to an old woman. The two tales are similar because they both have a happy ending, but they differ in how the woman feels. The maiden in the Knight's tale did not want to get married and prayed to Diana to let her be a virgin and to not marry either, but she was forced to choose one of them. In the Wife of Bath's tale the old woman wanted a husband that would love her, but the knight did not want to be married to a old woman, At the end of the story the woman turned into a beautiful young lady.

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The idea of love differs greatly in both tales. In the Wife of Baths' tale, love is an ideal and choice. It involves personality and individual characteristics of the ones in love. It is the women who hold the power of love in the tale and focus directly on emotions and psychological appeal. However in the knights tale we see two different men fighting to have a woman's hand. It's not so much a choice as it is a battle and "coin flip". Personality and emotional appeal are not heavily relied on. But we focus on the physical triumphs and acts performed by the men. We do see some similarities tho, such as the men and women going to great distances to win the love of someone as well as being introduced to character we would consider bad and have very obvious flaws and maladies that negatively affect them.

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In "The Knight's Tale", Chaucer focuses on the theme of true love always winning, whereas in "The Pardoner's Tale", he focuses on themes of greed. "The Knight's Tale" displays motifs involving vivid imagery and descriptive writing which employs ideas that characterize the gods and goddesses by explaining how the characters relate to their respective deities; and as Taylor said, "the ideal of love is portrayed as a kind of sickness...". This exemplifies how true love will win in the end and can be the demise of others. In "The Pardoner's Tale", Chaucer doesn't go into great detail explaining characters, but instead he recounts the tale of how greed and money are the root of all evil. "The Knight's Tale" deserves the award because he told a tale of chivalry and honor and how in the end, love wins the lot.

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In "The Knight's Tale", Chaucer focuses on the theme of true love always winning, whereas in "The Pardoner's Tale", he focuses on themes of greed. "The Knight's Tale" displays motifs involving vivid imagery and descriptive writing which employs ideas that characterize the gods and goddesses by explaining how the characters relate to their respective deities; and as Taylor said, "the ideal of love is portrayed as a kind of sickness...". This exemplifies how true love will win in the end and can be the demise of others. In "The Pardoner's Tale", Chaucer doesn't go into great detail

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Love has always changed throughout time and so have the rules. During the middle age period the world began a new passion with love. The ideals of courtly love are different in the Knights Tale and in the Wife of Bath's Tale, however do have some similarities through out them. In the Knight's Tale Arcita and Palamon fall in love with a women they do not even know; only have seeing her from afar. They based everything off of her beauty thinking she was the best women. Like Brandon and Taylor said they are willing to sacrifice their life to be able to marry Emily. Chauncer satirizes the rules of courtly love in The Wife of Bath's Tale. Now compared to the Knight's Tale, The wife of Bath's Tale portrays the women as the controlling one, not the men. Which was the answer to the queens question that she sent the knight on a one year voyage to find what women really want, and that's control over their men. The knight was forced to marry the elder women just like in the Knight's Tale she chased after beauty just like the cousins did after Emily.

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The Knight's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale have different plot lines, but have some similarities as well. In The Knight's Tale, two cousins are fighting for the same women, while in The Pardoner's Tale, three men kill each other for gold that they found when looking for Death. In both tales, there was someone wise that inspired the men to do what they do. In The Knight's Tale, the king told the cousins that they could fight for the maiden, and in The Pardoner's Tale, the old man, whom they thought was Death, pointed the men towards the gold that they killed each other for. In my opinion, I think the reward should go to The Pardoner's Tale because it teaches the readers that greed is a fatal flaw to have

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The Knight's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale had two very different plot lines, but there were some similarities too. The Knight's Tale was about two men who were competing for the same women, while The Pardoner's Tale is about three men competing for gold that they found. Both stories had someone who inspired the competitors. The King inspired the cousins to fight for women in The Knight's Tale, and the old man that they thought was Death pointed them towards the gold that they killed each other for in The Pardoner's Tale

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The Knight's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale had two very different plot lines, but there were some similarities too. The Knight's Tale was about two men who were competing for the same women, while The Pardoner's Tale is about three men competing for gold that they found. Both stories had someone who inspired the competitors. The King inspired the cousins to fight for women in The Knight's Tale, and the old man that they thought was Death pointed them towards the gold that they killed each other for in The Pardoner's Tale

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The Pardoner’s Tale and the Wife of Bath’s Tale both revolve around characters that are introduced as stereotypical “bad” characters, with the Pardoner’s Tale being centered around a band of brash drunkards and the Wife of Bath’s Tale being centered around a knight convicted of rape. However, the main characters of the Pardoner’s Tale show no signs of straying from their rude actions, in fact, the Pardoner describes the youngest saying,”For this young man was utterly content to kill them both and never to repent,” while the knight from the Wife of Bath’s Tale shows signs of growth by the end of the tale. As Jonathan said, the knight spends an entire year looking for the thing women most desire, during this year he is forced to ask for help from every woman that he sees, putting him at their mercy, and by the end of the tale we see the effect this year had on him; he allows his wife to choose what kind of woman she will be for herself--an act that proves his reform from a rapist to a considerate husband.This maturing of a character makes the Wife of Bath’s Tale more complex than that of the Pardoner, and thus she deserves the prize.

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Don't use my first one lol. Which is the one I'm posted over right now. It wont let me delete it, was just playing around with the website yesterday.

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The word "love" is shapeless; one could recite a tale of love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. In both The Knight's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale, the standards of love differ considerably, but overall they coalesce to emphasize the power of love and the desire to be loved. In the Knight's Tale, both Arcita and Palamon crave the love of Emily, who in contrast wishes to be unmarried for the rest of her life. Their frustration intensifies when the two men who are head over heels for Emily have to literally fight for who will marry her. Emily has no choice but to marry one of them and she accepts this fact in this time, whereas in The Wife of Bath's Tale, women were significantly more powerful as the knight was dependent on the answers of all the women he questioned. In the wife of Bath's Tale, the old hag longed for love just like Palamon and Arcita longed for it, so when she was offered the opportunity to answer the knight's vital question that would save his life, she presented him with the correct answer and then forced him to marry her against his will. This young knight also desired love, but not from the old and unsightly woman. He craved to be in love with someone young, fair, and beautiful. As kelsey and several others mentioned, another similarity between the tales is their "happily ever after." Palamon and his one true love, Emily, married after he won the battle in The Knight's Tale and the knight married the hag who transformed into a faithful and lovely young woman.

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Courtly love is seen as more of an ownership then equality in “The Knights Tale”. The wife of king Theseus is a prisoner of war along with her sister Emily and while they are treated better and given high statuses, their lives ultimately belong to the King for him to do with what he would. This is shown when Theseus gives Emily over to one of the two prisoners as a prize. However, contrasting slightly in the “Wife’s Tale” the women held a more powerful role. While they were not all sovereign a few were and others wished deeply for such. The woman which the knight had married had even saved his life giving him such knowledge such that all ladies wished to be sovereign over their husbands.

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In The Knight's Tale, courtly love is shown in a fashion that men have an attraction only towards beauty. Arcita and Palamon only see Emily from a distance, yet they feel that she is the most wonderful woman in the world and they are both "in love." In the Wife of Bath's tale, the story teaches a different perspective. Women are shown to be loved because of their characteristics and their morals, not necessarily on their looks. They are the same in the way that at least one man in each tale longed to be with an "attractive " female

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In The Knight's Tale, courtly love is shown in a fashion that men have an attraction only towards beauty. Arcita and Palamon only see Emily from a distance, yet they feel that she is the most wonderful woman in the world and they are both "in love." In the Wife of Bath's tale, the story teaches a different perspective. Women are shown to be loved because of their characteristics and their morals, not necessarily on their looks. They are the same in the way that at least one man in each tale longed to be with an "attractive " female, regardless of how they were on the inside (Arcita and Palamon with Emily, and the knight in The Wife of Bath's Tale with the woman that he raped). Emily is at first not interested in Arcita or Palamon, yet as Jonathan pointed out, Diana told her she must. The old croone plays the knight in a way to make him want her, not for her beauty but her morals instead. She ultimately becomes young, beautiful, and still holds her faithful characteristics, thus providing the audience with the idea that women can and should be looked at in a different way that does not single out their beauty. The women act different in the way they want to be courted and how they want men to see them.

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The ideals of courtly love in the Knight's Tale and those in the Wife of Bath's Tale differ greatly, but do possess some similarities. In the Knights Tale, the two cousins are stunned by this gorgeous woman, Emily. They do not know the woman at all, but yet somehow fall in love with her and her looks. As Taylor said, the two men are willing to give their life to be able to marry Emily. On the other hand, the Knight is forced to love this woman whom he does not wish to be with. The Knight doesn't have a choice in this love. In the Knights Tale, Emily does not really want to be married, for she kind of goes along with while in the Wife of Bath's Tale, the women wishes to be married so badly that she forces the Knight to promise to marry her without him actually knowing. The similarities between the two are very clear as well. The two cousins and the Knight all chase beauty. If Emily was not gorgeous, they would not be having the fight. If the old hag was a youthful and beautiful woman, he would be complete and would not long for anything else. Both relationships end up in a "happily ever after" kind of thing; everybody goes home happy, except for the guy that died. Taylor mentioned how Emily does not put up a fight for the men, while the women in the Wife of Bath's Tale do fight for the man. I would like to add on that. Emily is very chill, going along with whatever, and she doesn't even want to marry either one of them. The other woman is so controlling and uptight, which makes life miserable for the knight.

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The ideals of love are polar opposites in The Knight's Tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale. In The Knight's Tale, Emily, who has a high status in society, is treated as a prize to be won by a man of low status who wins a duel. Emily obviously doesn't want to be married; "O you chaste goddess, you know know well that I desire to be a virgin all my life, never to be a mistress or a wife" (1430 - 1432). However, when the goddess Diana tells her that she must marry one of the two men, she is submissive and obedient; the same characteristics that were expected of women at that time. In The Wife of Bath's Tale, women were portrayed very differently. In the beginning when the knight is spared if he answers a question right, it is done so by the queen, a powerful woman. The knight must answer the question: "What do women want the most?" The knight goes out and searches for a year. An old hag finally tells him the answer he needs to same his life -- women want to have control over their husbands. After his life is spared, he is forced to marry the old woman. The knight is sad because he is married to such an ugly woman. His wife then gives him a choice: she can either be young, pretty, and unfaithful, or old, ugly, and loyal. Ultimately, the knight allows his wife to choose what she believes is the best. By allowing her to choose, she has control over her husband (what all women want), and she becomes both young and faithful and they both live happily ever after. Both of the tales give us an interesting look into the mind of Mr. Chaucer. The Knight's Tale is a prime example of what a woman was expected to be in those days while The Wife of Bath's Tale takes a new perspective of the role of women in society, for the first time, giving them power in a male-dominated world.

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The ideals of love in the Knight's Tale and in the Wife of Bath's Tale share many differences as well as similarities. In the Knight's Tale, love is fought for by and between the two knights, Arcita and Palamon, whereas in the Wife of Bath's Tale, love is fought for and desired by the woman rather than the man. In the Knight's Tale, Arcita and Palamon fall hopelessly "in love" with this woman at first sight, and are given one year to find an army to fight to the death for the love of Emily. In the Wife of Bath's Tale, the knight is also given one year to find the answer to the queen's question in order to spare his life. As Kelsey mentioned, the queens in both stories did spare the knights' lives. In the Knight's Tale, the queen convinced her husband not to kill the knights, but to let them fight each other and settle their own dilemma. In the Wife of Bath's Tale, the queen tells the knight she will spare his life instead of killing him for raping the young woman, if he can answer her question "what does a woman desire most?" The queens are similar in that they both show mercy to the knights and are willing to give them a chance to live and earn it. The other women, however, differ greatly. Emily in the Knight's Tale does not desire a man and is simply forced into loving the winner of the knights' battle over her. However, the woman in the Wife of Bath's Tale yearns so deeply for love that she practically bribes the knight into marrying her by giving him the answer that will literally save his life. The women in both tales, though, are portrayed as weak and inferior to the men. Emily because she is forced into marriage with whoever wins the battle, and the woman in the Wife of Bath's Tale because it is depicted that she is foolish enough to fall for the knight's trick to make her young, beautiful AND good.

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Both the Knight's tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale are love stories with a happy ending. Although some similarities were present, they achieved their happy endings in very different ways. In both stories a young male falls in love for a woman they cannot have. The knights from the Knight's Tale admire their young maiden from afar while the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale rapes the beautiful girl. There deep love for these women forces them to face death, but fortunately for them, the queen in both stories saves them from the king executing them. While one knight was banned and the other locked, the knight from the Wife of Bath's Tale was forced to answer a question in order to stay alive. The two knights battle for marriage, unlike in the other story where the knight is forced into marriage. The main female characters in each story are also very different, but both women have a good heart and morals. Emily in the Knight's tale is youthful and attracts many men. The old woman in the Wife of Bath's Tale is ugly and poor.  Emily does not want to be married while the old woman would do anything to be married, even if her husband does not feel the same way about her.  In the end they both are happily married and youthful. In the Knight's Tale, gods such as Mars, Venus and Diana is what ultimately decides the fate of the characters, but in the Wife of Bath's Tale, fairies, trolls, and magic of that sort plays a major role in the story.

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The ideals of courtly love in the Knight's Tale and those in the Wife of Bath's Tale differ greatly, but do possess some similarities. In the Knights Tale, the two cousins are stunned by this gorgeous woman, Arcita. They do not know the woman at all, but yet somehow fall in love with her and her looks. As Taylor said, the two men are willing to give their life to be able to marry Arcita. On the other hand, the Knight is forced to love this woman whom he does not wish to be with. The Knight doesn't have a choice in this love. In the Knights Tale, Emily does not really want to be married, for she kind of goes along with while in the Wife of Bath's Tale, the women wishes to be married so badly that she forces the Knight to promise to marry her without him actually knowing. The similarities between the two are very clear as well. The two cousins and the Knight all chase beauty. If Emily was not gorgeous, they would not be having the fight. If the old hag was a youthful and beautiful woman, he would be complete and would not long for anything else. Both relationships end up in a "happily ever after" kind of thing; everybody goes home happy, except for the guy that died. Taylor mentioned how Emily does not put up a fight for the men, while the women in the Wife of Bath's Tale do fight for the man. I would like to add on that. Emily is very chill, going along with whatever, and she doesn't even want to marry either one of them. The other woman is so controlling and uptight, which makes life miserable for the night.

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Although love has always existed, the rules of love continue to change throughout time. In the Middle Ages, the world became infatuated with love. Courtly love governed relationships, dictating exactly how love should  be executed. This ideology transformed literature, creating a new genre devoted to valiant knights embarking on heroic quests in order to earn the love a gorgeous woman. Realistically though, not everyone in the Middle Ages was an esteemed knight or even a beautiful girl so Geoffrey Chaucer explores a world in which the rules of love are often broken and Chaucer satirizes the rules of courtly love in "The Wife of Bath's Tale.

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The ideals of courtly love in the Knight's Tale and those in the Wife of Bath's Tale differ greatly, but do possess some similarities. In the Knights Tale, the two cousins are stunned by this gorgeous woman, Arcita. They do not know the woman at all, but yet somehow fall in love with her and her looks. As Taylor said, the two men are willing to give their life to be able to marry Arcita. On the other hand, the

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In the Knight's Tale, the ideal of love is portrayed as a kind of sickness that infects Palamon and Arcita's hearts, which potentially drives the two men to fight for and ultimately sacrifice themselves for Emily. In the Wife of Bath's Tale, the ideal of love is that it is something to be controlled, specifically by the woman in the relationship. The difference between these two ideals of courtly love is that some see it as an intoxicating, desirable euphoria that is to be strived for while others see it as a gift to be given only under the satisfaction of the beholder. The men in the Knight's Tale treat love as a selfless sacrifice while the women in the Wife of Bath's Tale control their love for selfish benefits. One similarity between the two tales is that both Arcita and Palamon in the Knight's Tale and the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale all long for something that they do not have. Arcita and Palamon both have a deep longing for Emily while the knight longs for a more beautiful, youthful wife rather than the old hag. The female characters in the two tales act differently because, unlike the woman in the Wife of Bath's Tale, Emily has no desire to be married, let alone have dominion over any man. Emily prays to Diana asking if she could be spared from marriage and live as a huntress, but it is written in the stars that she be married. So, Emily submits herself to marriage without putting up a fight. On the other hand, the women in the Wife of Bath's Tale desire power and act in such a way to achieve this. The knight is forced to hand over the power he has over his body to first the queen and her court, and later to the old lady that he was forced to marry. The difference between the actions of the female characters in the two tales is that Emily does not put up a fight to achieve what she desires, while the women in the Wife of Bath's tale do act in order to get what they want with the knight.

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The Canterbury Tales

In-Class Essay: Choose one of the following prompts and write a response (due Thursday 11.17).

1. Compare and contrast two tales we read. What are the different characteristics? Analyze the theme. Consider plot intricacy and cast of characters. Which of the three tales deserves the prize?

2. Compare the ideals of courtly love in the Knight’s Tale with those in the Wife of Bath’s Tale. How are they different? How are they the same? Is there a difference in the way the female characters act in the two tales?