Week 13 Reading Notes: Canterbury Tales, Part A

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The Franklin (Wikimedia)

Week 13 Reading Notes: Canterbury Tales, Part A

The Wife of Bath’s Tale: The Unknown Bride:

· Interesting to compare stories with respect to their authors. From the first few paragraphs we can see how this female author shifts the power in her story to the Queen and women of the court.

· The quest goal of finding what women wish for most is interesting, I wonder also how this story was received in its time

· I like how this story has the dialogue embedded into paragraphs of description, might be an interesting strategy to try for my next story as I typically have been separating the two elements. I like this style though because it creates a nice cohesive feeling and flow to the story

· I like the fact that the Knight does not turn away when he realizes it is not a group of young women but a crone, the opposite of what Beast does in Beauty and the Beast, might be interesting to expand upon this.

· And then he does what Beast does and turns her down at first, but ultimately makes it right and she turns out to be young and beautiful. Interesting roundabout to get to that classic message that people are more than appearances.

The Franklin’s Tale: The Promise of Dorigen:

· Exposition here is detailed yet concise, something I could learn a bit from.

· Dorigen’s promise almost acts as a thesis statement ending the introduction of an essay, will be interesting to see if this holds for rest of story

· Interesting story and I’m not totally sure how to feel about it, I think there are a number of points in which Dorigen could have recognized Aurelius’s trick, or Aurelius should have been advised to move on. Opportunities for retelling in a number of different ways: modernize, have her realize the trick, have his brother help him move on.

Bibliography
The Chaucer Story Book by Eva March Tappan

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