The Canterburry Tales
Throughout The Canterbury Tales, people of potentially good character are thrust into situations that make them act in ways they never would have. If not for the situations the characters were placed in, they would surely have acted differently and their dark sides would not have emerged. We see this in the following three tales -- “The Miller’s Tale”, “The Knights Tale”, and “The Pardoners Tale”. The first example of this thesis is found in “The Miller’s Tale.” In this tale, Nicholas seduces and sets bad examples for Alison, and puts her in a compromising situation. Alison is introduced as a very young, beautiful, and smart woman. She is also said to be fit to marry any lord or yeoman. One day, when Alison’s husband isn’t there, a man named Nicholas begins to seduce her, and uses his charm to try to get her to sleep with him. She agrees. However, a man named Absolon is also after Alison, but unlike Nicholas, he truly loves her. Even so, Alison is still set with Nicholas, the man that seduced her. Nicholas gets her to trick her husband, which ultimately leads to people thinking that her husband is insane. She also tricks Absolon into kissing her naked “ass” and embarrasses him greatly. If it wasn
The last example to support the thesis is found in “The Pardoners Tale.” In this tale, three men try to avenge their friends’ death and because of this and their poor behavior, they too die themselves. This tale’s plot is three men wanting to kill death. This posed a problem to begin with because you can’t kill death, but the three men were very drunk when they decided to do this. On their travels, these men come across eight bushels of gold. This only spelled trouble. Two men plan to kill the other man when he comes back from town so that they can split the gold evenly between themselves. They kill the man, and to celebrate, they drink the wine the man they killed brought them. They die as well since the third man had poisoned the wine. Throughout this story, we see how greed is the route of all evil. The three men start off with a noble mission to kill death. Their friend has died and they want to get back at death to avenge their friend. But when they find the gold, the story begins to take a tailspin. They all make plans to kill each other so they can all be the richest men in town. The end result is all their deaths. However, this could have been easily avoided. After finding the gold, they could have split it up e
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