In the movie, A Knight’s tale takes place in the middle ages where women were talked down to, money was a severe problem due to lack of jobs, A terrible political system called tyranism, and a time where war was nonstop. Many problems were in this time, from moral issues to political problems. People were slaughtered, mistreated, and talked down to everyday because it was normal. There are a lot of improvements in today’s society, but some things are still as they were back then.
The main character in this movie, William, was a peasant in this movie and a servant to a knight. This goes to two ways of modern society. The peasant/servant was the employee to the knight. In the middle ages, to be a knight, you had to be from a noble bloodline. The servant got little food, no wages, and poor living conditions if any. Just like today’s society, people are mistreated because of their home situation and are forced to resort to terrible jobs. The knight in the modern age is like the CEO of a big company. He was born into massive wealth, fame, and is over-glorified.
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Like when the woman blacksmith was the only one with no business and was talked down upon. Women were household objects for the most part, their sole purpose was to cook, clean, and to repopulate the earth. Many had the jobs such as nuns, wives, mothers, and an artisan. The recent years has shown numerous cases of women’s rights such as equal jobs, non-discrimination, and equality. Socially, women are still the lesser gender in most people’s eyes. That has not changed from all this time. People still treat women as nothing more than a child maker, watcher, and