“The Pardoner’s Tale” is about three young men, brothers, who set out in search for death. Their plan was to find death and kill it. On their way to finding death, they come across a very old man, and the first thing they do when they see him is disrespect him. “What, old fool?”(133). By calling him a fool, it disregards any respect for the man. An elderly person should be considered wise and treated highly. How

“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is about a knight who is accused of raping a girl. He is sent to court, in front of the King and Queen. The King gave his Queen the power to let him live or die. She said “Yet you shall live if you can answer me: What is the thing that woman most desire?”(142). She gave him a year and a day to search for what women want. He asked, what seemed to him, as every woman in the country, but no one had a straight answer. He gave up and decided to go back to the Queen. On his way back “he saw a dance upon a leafy floor of four and twenty ladies, nay, and more.”(144) He thought this could be it they could know what women want. But when the knight approached there only was one old woman, he was very polite and asked “Dear Mother alack the day! I am as good as dead if I can’t say what thing it is that women most desire”(144). One thing to take into consideration in this line is the fact that he calls her mother and that is considered very respectable. The old woman would tell him, but only under the condition that he marries her. He returns to the Queen and tells her what women most desire. And lo and behold the old woman was right. She saved his life. The old woman didn’t forget the knight’s promise. She made him marry her. Their first night as a couple was horrible. He just lay next to her in bed without a word. She asked him what was wrong and if she could fix anything that she did wrong. He said to her that it can’t be fixed “nothing can ever be put right again!”(146). He told her that she was old, plain, poor, and low-bred. The old woman rambled on and on until she asked him a very important question. “You have two choices, which one will you try? To have me old and ugly till I die, but still a loyal, true, and hu

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