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Re: Question 3 for Chaucer: due by class on 10/19/09

From: Dennis Rufener
Date: 10/19/2009
Time: 11:12:29 AM
Remote Name: 207.200.237.28

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All three of these tales are unrealistic. In the Knights tale there is two guys in jail that fall in love with a woman that happens to be walking through a garden right outside the jail. They fight for her love and eventually one of them gets the girl. How often do you see gardens right outside the jail theses days? The Miller's tale talks about a young man fooling the carpenter that there is a second coming of Noahs flooding and gets with his wife. Some people are nieve but come on now. The last of the three tales is the Wife of Bath's tale and his woman talks about her past five husband and howw they were each good and bad people. Then she transforms herself into a young, more beautiful woman for her husband. That can't happen and even if you tried there isn't enough money out there to make it happen. All of these tales are a little out there but thats why they call them tales.


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