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Marriage and Loyalty in Canterbury Tales - Paper

Marriage and Loyalty in Canterbury Tales

Jaquelius Moody
February 27, 2012
Ms. Brown
Honors English IV

In the Canterbury Tales, love marriage, and loyalty are involved with at least two of the stories. In each story the topic of love, marriage, and loyalty are seen as being the same and different in the stories. Two of the stories who have such topics as these are, The Wife of Bath and The Miller's Tale. Each of these tales has a different perspective of love and loyalty and they also have the similar perspective of some things.
The Wife of Bath tale's perspective of marriage is different from everyday marriage. This tale's main character is a woman who was married five different times since she was twelve years old. ...

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marrying the woman to figure this out. However the knight and the woman both remained faithful to each other.
Faithfulness was not looked at as the same in The Miller's Tale. This tale was all about adultery and outside relationships. In this tale the only woman character was the unfaithful person. She cheated on her husband with one of her lovers. Evidently the woman doesn't think being faithful is a big deal in a relationship. Her husband however does believe you should be faithful because he was not the one who was being unfaithful. The cause of the cheating was due to an extra person in the equation. The wife, Allison, had a lover outside her marriage. In the end Allison ends up not being caught and gets away with everything.
The story of Equitan is all about unfaithfulness. This story also has an outside party that corrupts a relationship. The lover, or outside party, in this story also gets the adulterer to try and get freed of her husband. In the end the two ...

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Added: 5/24/2012 11:38:25 PM
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Category: English
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