The Canterbury Tales: The Knights Tale Part I

The Knights Tale Part I describes the characteristics of a lover, while also showing the importance of nature as well. To be a lover, a man must be a hero while the woman, not only a damsel but a delicate one at that. Describing how the two brothers went to jail, the Knights tale was constantly talking about the “great doings” this knight did, and how women simply flocked to him. When the brothers were in jail, they already acted like the lady belonged to them from simply just seeing her. Nature plays a big part in this description, for when they first saw this “fair” lady, she was going around the garden, picking flowers, and the Knight’s tale was relating these things in nature to said lady. Planets and paganism seem to play a role as well, there are plenty of instances where Venus and Gods are brought up. I am not a fan of how these men act like they love this lady and how she belongs to them, even though she has no idea who they are. Even at the end, the jealousy the one brother is showing the other even though he is not free, but he could still see her, it is blasphemous.