what it was originally intended to be. In the novel The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses this idea to tell the stories of “The Knight's Tale” and “The Miller’s Tale” as a response to each other through giving them similarities in their plot structures as well as the use of divine interventions to achieve a goal, while at the same time keeping the stories
The Canterbury Tales was written, around the fourteenth century, societal standards for men and women were much different compared to today’s society in the twenty first century. “The Wife of Bath Tale” specifically pushes these standards to the utmost degree. Women’s submissiveness and virginity were highly important during the medieval period. Though this is what was deemed socially acceptable in society, the Wife of Bath had other ideas as to what is acceptable. A prime example of the Wife’s personal
set in a flaking metal, chivalry. Chivalry has been lost in the recent years of mankind, to be precise it only last a couple hundred years. It is evident that in order for the people of today to adapt chivalric thought they must read about the past. “There were three types of chivalry in the Middle Ages. These included duties to countrymen, duties to God and duties to women. These three areas intertwined often and were sometimes hard to distinguish.” (Simon Newman) Chivalry is demonstrated throughout