ENGL1009 Study Guide - Cheese, Geoffrey Chaucer, Guinevere

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In the canterbury tales by geoffrey chaucer, a band of pilgrims traveling to canterbury take turns telling stories. The main characters of each pilgrim"s tale face their reckoning and whether they are punished or absolved; their judgment is specific to the pilgrim who told the tale. The knight from the wife of bath"s tale is judged and forgiven when and the three men from the. Pardoner"s tale meet their end when they let greed, what the pardoner calls the root of evil, impair their judgment. The knight"s judgment relates to the wife of bath mainly because the story she told depicted that when women took control, or had sovereignty , both husband and wife would live in harmony. In her story the wife of bath described how queen guinevere and her court of female saved the knight from death but only if he could find out what women desire most.

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