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Irony In The Knight's Tale

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Sarah Paschall
Brent Paschall
British Literature
October 5, 2017
The Knight’s Tale 2 On the day of Palamon and Archite’s battle, the duke Theseus set out to hunt the stag, and happened to come to the glade where Palamon and Archite were fighting. The duke was outraged to find the two knights fighting without witnesses, and vowed to slay them. The women in his party; however, did not wish for them to be slain, and begged the duke to spare them. The good duke relented from his wrath, and told Palamon and Archite that he would give them a year to prepare an army of one hundred men. When the year had passed they were to come back to the glade where they were standing in, and fight in the lists for the hand of Emily. The Knight’s Tale is full of ironic twists that prevent you from knowing what will happen next. …show more content…

Emily prayed to the goddess of purity, asking that she need not marry, but if she must, that she be married to the one who loved her most. Palamon prayed to the goddess of love, asking that he could have Emily not necessarily by victory over Archite, but by any way possible, and if he couldn’t that he die by Archite’s spear. Archite went to the god of war, asking that he win and defeat Palamon, and win Emily for himself. The gods all answered their prayers, Emily that the one who loved her most would marry her, Palamon that he would win his love, and Archite that he would win the

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