Chaucer Satire Analysis

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Three Satiric Messages from Chaucer In the story, Chaucer, the wife tells a tale about a knight and a young girl. This knight rapes a young girl, and when everyone in the village found out the knight got in serious trouble. They told the knight in order to be a free man, and have all the women he wants he has to complete a quest. The quest was that he had one year to answer a question. The question was whether or not he can find out what all women want. The knight though that this was going to be an easy question to answer, and he said instead of it taking him a year he could most likely find the right answer within a matter of days. So the knight set off on his quest and after asking a few women what they want he now knew that this question was not going to be as easy for him to figure out then what he thought it was going to be. The three satiric messages would be: the wife’s tale, the use of humor, and wrongful punishment.
First, would be that he finally finds out that most women want to be in charge. That is the quest that he is sent upon to complete. Nothing makes a women for happy then knowing that she is dominant. A women wants to be able to snap her fingers and …show more content…

The most obvious punishment would be that of the knight’s. He was punished like I mentioned before because he rapped a young girl. Well anyone else knows that he would have been sentenced to death if it was to actually happen. Well in the poem the guy was given a chance to take a quest instead. This would never ever happen, but by Chaucer adding this into the poem it caused humor and satire. In the poem it says, “In all the parish there was no goodwife Should offering make before her, on my life; And if one did, indeed, so wroth was she It put her out of all her charity.” And even though that some parts in the story seem more serious it is not meant to be it is meant to be more suspenseful and add even more

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