In the time and setting that Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is taking place in, women are held in a lower social standing than men. The only way that woman was viewed in people’s eyes was that of a wife and mother to her family. Considering the role that woman play with their family, during that it is important to note that these roles were taken very seriously, therefore also rewarded. In one novella that the standards and expectations of being a wife are upheld would have to be the novella
GRISELDA: Good afternoon Clytemnestra, Shahrazad; do you mind if I sit with you? SHAHRAZAD: Please join us Griselda; I am glad you could come to the party. I heard about the current events between you and your husband; I am glad that everything worked out in the end. CLYTEMNESTRA: Yes, please sit Griselda. How are you doing after everything that has happened? GRISELDA: I am doing well. I am sure you know that Gualtieri felt he had to test me to see if I was worthy of being his wife. I am just
novels impacted the education and culture of the Renaissance era. One of the most famous novels written in the Renaissance era was The Decameron that was written by Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron has over 100 tales that showed the view of the plague in the “uncivilized East” (Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron”). One of the most important impacts of Decameron is that it is the only remaining description of the Black Plague of 1348 ("Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database."). Boccaccio’s novel
will it be found, I think, that in each of the parts there is something of the other parts." (Kettle 12) "Novel" comes from the Italian "novelle," which was used for sensational news stories. One collection, Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron, was popularized in the 14th century (Phelps 11). The term carried over into English to form the basis of the English novels. There are certain components that a novel should contain. George Phelps has come up with a six-part basis for identifying