The Knights Tale In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
The Knights tale was the first and best tale told in The Canterbury Tales and I think it should
win because of how much I absolutely love Knights. A skilled and heroic man covered in metal
armor who lives to help others in need. That idea of a person with that kind of personality is just
really interesting to me. It also makes me want to be more like a knight whenever I think or talk
about them. Although Palamon and Arcite, the main character in the Knights tale, are bad
examples of what a knight is suppose to be like it does not hender my love for Knights at all.
I found in dictionary.com the best description for a knight is, “a man, (from Europe in the
Middle Ages) usually born of noble birth, who after an aprrenticeship as …show more content…
The idea immediately captured popular attention, to the point where Jedi-based groups sprang up
on the Internet to recreate a new idealism. Such is the cultural hunger waiting to be fed. The one
thing that all these venues have in common is the strong attraction to knighthood and chivalry,
for men especially. Both the title and the rite-of-passage it represents a core need that today's
society no longer meets, despite its technological wealth and myriad distractions.”
After the mighty Duke Theseus of Athens had sieged and plundered Scythia. He came with a
new wife and her sister-in-law, Emily. On their trip back to Athens they come upon a group of
women that live and Thebes. These women were crying because their king, Creon, refused to let
them have proper burials for their dead husband. They begged Duke Theseus to attack him and
defeat him. So Duke Theseus agrees and then defeats King Creon of Thebes. He takes two
hostages from Thebes with him after named Palamon and Arcite, who are cousins. He then
win because of how much I absolutely love Knights. A skilled and heroic man covered in metal
armor who lives to help others in need. That idea of a person with that kind of personality is just
really interesting to me. It also makes me want to be more like a knight whenever I think or talk
about them. Although Palamon and Arcite, the main character in the Knights tale, are bad
examples of what a knight is suppose to be like it does not hender my love for Knights at all.
I found in dictionary.com the best description for a knight is, “a man, (from Europe in the
Middle Ages) usually born of noble birth, who after an aprrenticeship as …show more content…
The idea immediately captured popular attention, to the point where Jedi-based groups sprang up
on the Internet to recreate a new idealism. Such is the cultural hunger waiting to be fed. The one
thing that all these venues have in common is the strong attraction to knighthood and chivalry,
for men especially. Both the title and the rite-of-passage it represents a core need that today's
society no longer meets, despite its technological wealth and myriad distractions.”
After the mighty Duke Theseus of Athens had sieged and plundered Scythia. He came with a
new wife and her sister-in-law, Emily. On their trip back to Athens they come upon a group of
women that live and Thebes. These women were crying because their king, Creon, refused to let
them have proper burials for their dead husband. They begged Duke Theseus to attack him and
defeat him. So Duke Theseus agrees and then defeats King Creon of Thebes. He takes two
hostages from Thebes with him after named Palamon and Arcite, who are cousins. He then