THE CANTERBURY TALES

BY CHAUCER

CIVILIZACIÓN Y CULTURA INGLESA

Teacher: Carlos M. Beltrán Piedrola

Student: Johnny Miguel Pita Balbuena

Characters Prince Theseus Hyppolita (queen of Scythia) Emelye (Hyppolita’s sister) Arcite (Knight of Thebes) Palamon (Knight of Thebes) Venus (goddess of love) Mars (god of war) Diana (goddess of chastity) Saturn Pluto (god of the underworld)

Main Topic The Tale is undoubtedly

a romance as Chaucer presents it, supposedly a true history of many hundreds of years ago told by an authoritative, high-status figure (in this case the Knight).

Love Morality

Plot Vengeance upon Creon. Theseus sent armies toward Thebes. Arcite and Palamon were found, then imprisioned. Both Arcite and Palamon felt in love with Emelye. Pirithous, a prince. Theseus set Arcite free . After six years Palamon scaped from prison. Theseus decided that the two will wage war on each other for

Emelye’s love. Declared that Arcite had won. An earthquake was sent by Pluto.  Arcite

died.

Connection

It is very likely that the Knight’s Tale was written before the Canterbury Tales.

It has the unusual status of being both a part of the tales as a whole, but also a separate work of literature in its own right .

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