In Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, throughout the twenty-four astonishing short stories, the author emphasizes on the importance of love and the institution of marriage throughout the stories. Geoffrey Chaucer, a devout Christian often referred to the Bible in his works. The Bible presents marriage as an institution, rather than a human origin, due to Geoffrey Chaucer’s strong belief in Christianity, he highlights these themes. The readers see this during both, The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale. Chaucer emphasizes on the fact that love is worth fighting for in these stories.
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Knights Tale, was set around two venturesome imprisoned men by the names of Palamon and Arcite. Soon the plot begins to unfold, and we come to the realization that both men fell in love with the same girl. However, neither of the men were able to meet this girl due to their imprisonment. In their quest to meet this girl, they parted ways. While filled with anger, the two agreed to fight for the women’s love. One had the hopes of winning the fight; the other had the hopes of winning the woman. The question is, what hope is worth more? One won the fight, but in the end the loser of the fight won the woman. One may say that winning the fight could be the true
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Shortly after, he began to fall in love, but there was a small problem… The love of his life just so happened to be the spouse of his landlord. Little did he know, a storm was about to erupt… Nicholas created a scheme to run off the landlord. However, the landlord was not fooled, the landlord was in outrage! Nicholas so deeply drenched in love, didn’t know what else to do. Though Nicholas wasn’t necessarily the fighting type of man, rather a sophisticated young man. He stepped out of his comfort zone and fought. So he fought, and he fought hard. He fought for the love of his