Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories created by thirty men who travel together to the city of Canterbury, written by Geoffrey Chaucer. Each pilgrim learns how to tell meaningful stories that engage each other as they pass time while traveling. They soon will reach the Tabard Inn where many of the stories are created. All of the stories told have an underlying meaning. Not all of the men spoke, some critiqued the stories. In particular, I will show the themes that are presented in “The Wife’s Bath Tale”, “ The Pardoner’s” and “The Knights Tale”. There are three themes that I found within these tales; Feminism, True Love and Social Classes. When the book was written women had one duty. Their purpose in life was to be exceptional housewives and the remorseful ones. “The Wife’s Bath Tale” allows the other pilgrims to somewhat understand what women go through, and how much their lives differ. In “The Wife’s Bath Tale” women were in charge of punishing men for sexual crimes. The king said, “You can't be sure if you're to live or not. I'll grant you life if you can tell me what. It is that women most desire (Chaucer,903-905)”. The king left the knights fate in his wife's hand. Men wanted women to be seen as …show more content…
The author, Dr. Lisa Firestone says, “... the illusion of connection and closeness [that allows couples] to maintain an imagination of love and loving while preserving emotional distance (Firestone, Psychalive) ”. True love is possible as the couple can fantasize about each other. They can be physically attracted to each other and like each other’s company. The issue though is can they keep the attraction alive. Will they still like the way each other look after months or years have passed? In other words, can you keep the spark alive? Once again true love is real and possible it’s just difficult to keep it as any type of