The Knights Tale
Religion and philosophy play a vital role in the Knight’s Tale. The story is told in such a way that is improbable. The story line creates characters that exist to move from one point to the other. The main characters are set free to appease the story, as well as fall in love at first sight.
The idea of fate and destiny is an overwhelming theme in the story. Palamon blames his fate on Venus and Saturn for falling in love. Throughout the story the characters would go to the gods seeking guidance or the god would arrive to them to guide or empower the character about whatever task lay ahead. This is echoed in the Knight’s Tale even though it was told centuries later. As I read the story I realized that all of the characters had…
This tale is supposedly a true story passed down among the knights of the day. Chaucer presents it with over-stressed traditions of romantic literature. Some of the oddities of the tales are really presented when taken into a whole with the Canterbury Tales. The Knight’s Tale is the first of the Canterbury tales. This may indicate how status is still an important part of class in England. The idea of class is also presented in the Knight’s Tale by being started with Theseus, and not the main…
I also seemed to notice a hidden message of how God or their gods have control over everything because when Arcite won and Venus was upset Saturn shock the earth causing Arcite to get seriously injured then leading to death. That is similar to how we have been taught that God has control over the things that we do with our lives and nothing is promised for us unless it is in God’s plan for our future. Even though we may think of it as unfair for Arcite to die after he had won in the stadium it is fair to say that his living was not in the gods…
