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Essay Archive - Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales demonstrate many different attitudes
toward and perceptions of marriage. Some of these ideas are very
traditional, such as that discussed in the Franklin's Tale, and others are
more liberal such as the marriages portrayed in the Miller's and the Wife
of Bath's Tales. While several of these tales are rather comical, they do
indeed give us a representation of the attitudes toward marriage at that
time in history.
D.W. Robertson, Jr. calls marriage "the solution to the problem of
love, t....
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