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From: Dan Hausserman
Date: 10/20/2009
Time: 10:16:55 PM
Remote Name: 75.134.19.21
In each of the three tales I see a perhaps archaic, yet satirically realistic spin on love. The obvious difference between the three is that there is a class difference, which would have made the tales vary much more in content than the way we think of love versus class today. The thing they all have in common, however, is that there is a nugget of wisdom in each of their unrealistic aspects. In the knights tale one might say that there is a ruthless, slightly irrational and insane part of love that makes one act as they normally wouldn't as arcite and palamon do. The miller's tale could be interpreted as to the false ideals that we put up to love and how unfaithful and deceitful humans really are. The wife of baths tale could tell of a misogynistic view of women's treachery in the love game. It seems that each gets a different point across in a different way.