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What is genre of the Tale?
Lurking Friars
What does she call them?
What do they do?
What did this caused?
"There is no incubus but he, and he....
What did the "lusty bachelor" do? (Knight)
"He saugh a maide walking him biforn..." and
Female authority in the Tale
The Queen decision about the knight
What does the queen ask the knight to find?
"I grante thee lyf, if thou canst...
How much time does he have?
He encounters a problem- women all have different opinions
Fire imagery for women who cant keep secrets
About 'hir herte'
The old woman, who appears in a magical way- 24 ladies dancing disappear.
Description about the Hag
The deal the Hag and the Knight make
"Plight me thy trouthe here in myn hand,....
Thou shalt...
and I wol...
The Knights answer
"Wommen desiren to have...
as wel over hir...
and for to be in..."
The Hag's request for saving his life
"That thou me take...
The knights response to the Marriage proposal
"Allas and...
"Taak al my good, and...
Thewife speaks of the wo in his marriage...because she is not beautiful...
"So wo was him...
Hag's argument for Nobility
"Christ wole we claime of...
"For of oure eldres...
'Poverte' and being noble
The wife makes a convincing case- persuading, well informed, wise, intellectual, using reason (what males were meant to have.)
Gives him a choice of what she can be- "Wheiter that yow liketh."
"To han me foul and old til that I deye and...
OR
""Or ells ye wol han me yong and fair and...
TURNING POINT
The knight gives her the choice
What the wife turns into once the knight has given her the choice
"That she was so...
Happily ever after in Chaucerian English..