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Sexual Autonomy In The Knight's Tale

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Her tale encompasses every claim she made in her prologue except she is in control of how it ends because it is a fictitious tale. The decree against sexual and physical violence is seen in the vilification of the Knight by the Royal court when he rapes a peasant woman. The dissolution of the dominant/submissive binary within a marriage is shown by the answer to the queen’s riddle (Lines1037_1040) and when the Knight internalizes this concept and concedes power to his wife, the two live happily thereafter (Lines1257_1258) as a as the answer to the Queen’s riddle that all woman desire sovereignty. Her support of women holding sexual autonomy is seen by the old woman having control over whether or not she is to remain faithful to her husband
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