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From: Ashley Stull
Date: 10/6/2009
Time: 7:35:08 PM
Remote Name: 68.190.114.91
I believe one of the wierdest things about chivalric romance in The Canterbury Tales compared to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, is the fact that in this story chivalric romance and love comes at very wierd times. I feel like in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, there was love and romance when the lady came in and seduced Gawain and it was at ironic times. I think, however, in The Canterbury Tales, some of the tales have romance where you wouldn’t expect it. The Wife of Bath’s tale starts out as being this huge romance with King Arthur and the Round table and then it takes a weird twist and it starts becoming almost like a “how-to” story on family behavior. It just dosent seem like it should be in the story at that time and place. It somewhat happens again in the Millers Tale when they start making fun of romance in a sense. I feel like the chivalric romance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was more structured, where it was known that romance was going to happen and it wasn’t as alarming to the reader. The Canteerbury tales almost seem like they aren’t meant to be confusing and not quite as structured as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in every aspect and not only it’s chivalric romance. I feel like Chaucer may have meant to be wacky in his writing of this story, based on what he writes about and how he includes things that really don’t necessarily go together. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight kind of had more of a straight story line and things didn’t just pop up out of no where, for the most part.