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Varying Relationships In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

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One of the key points that Geoffrey Chaucer focuses on in The Canterbury Tales is varying relationships and their impact on characters. One relationship occurs when a person finds someone that is worth loving for reasons beyond appearance and possessions. The other is fueled by the desire for something physical, for example money or sex, without a psychological bond with the provider. Relationships change depending on the motives of those involved and the amount of passion in the relationship in the first place. In “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale,” characters that find true love experience more pain and end up in weaker positions than those in relationships designed with shallow purposes in mind. In her first three marriages,
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