... Haskell, 9). Obvious examples of this include the wives in both the Miller and Reeve's tales. Men are continuously made "cokwolds" by their wives" failures to uphold the tradition of monogamy. However, the men also represent deviations from the ideals of the ideals of the romance genre and the values of Augustine. Recurrently, the male clergy members define lechery and sexual ... both the romantic and dogmatic philosophies of sex portray. To continue with this derailment of the significance of sex through infidelity, we must also examine the inclusion of fabliau tales in The Canterbury ...

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