These stories are from the Canterbury Tales Unit.
The Unknown Bride: Cute
story! First of all, I thought the answer to the Queen’s question of what women
want above anything was pretty funny (and probably accurate for a lot of
women). I also like that the knight learned his lesson about respecting women for
their virtues rather than their appearance and wealth. It was a little weird
that the bride was pretending to be so old, though. If she was poor and homely
but around the same age as the knight, it would have been less creepy! Still, I
liked the happy ending.
The Promise of Dorigen: I really enjoyed this story. Of course, any story with true love
is a good story for me. At first, I really did not like Aurelius. I felt bad
for him for being in love with Dorigen, since she was so clearly in love with
her husband and really didn’t like Aurelius at all. But he took her words way
too seriously and turned them into a promise when she was really just being
facetious. However, he proved to have a heart when he realized that she would
never be happy with him and that he essentially tricked her by enlisting a
magician. There really were three noble and generous men in this story.
The Revelers: I
love the poetic justice in this story. These rude and boastful revelers
certainly got what was coming to them. They were awful to others and even to
each other at the end. They naively set off to find Death (and kill him) and
wind up all killing each other in a brilliant arrangement of events!
Image information: Tantallon Castle in Scotland; The Promise of Dorigen partially takes place on a castle on a cliff.
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