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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts how these themes are explored in two stories from “The Canterbury Tales.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Tracy Gregory, November 2001 -- properly! The age-old philosophical debate as to whether life is a matter of
choice or destiny rages on. Unfortunately, however, we are no closer to a consensus now than we were when Geoffrey Chaucer was contemplating these issues in his satirical collection,
The Canterbury Tales. Two stories in particular, "The Wife of Baths Tale" and "The Knights Tale," prominently feature the themes of choice and destiny respectively, but draw quite different
conclusions. In the former, the actions of each character are based entirely upon choice; whereas in the latter, destiny, not choice, plays a far more important role in determining
the characters fate. Most of the action that takes place in "The Wife of Baths Tale" involves a matter of choice. In this story, a knight who has been
convicted of rape, which was his way of exercising his sexual choice, that was not in accordance with the law. The knight was sentenced to death will be granted
a reprieve by the Queen from his appointment with a hangmans noose only if he can determine, within a time period of one year, what it is that women truly
want from a man. For whatever reason, the Queen has chosen to give the man a choice - death or reprieve, and he naturally grasps one last chance to
live. The man meets three women who give him three completely conflicting accounts of what the feminine gender most desires. With the time clock ticking and the
hangmans noose drawing ever nearer, the knight realizes that he must find an answer to the Queens question, or else his destiny will be controlled by another. At this
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