... and female characters. Typically, in the extramarital affairs in The Canterbury Tales "the woman is invariably the strayer" (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 aggressiveness (Haskell 10). For example, the monk in the prologue ... ...

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