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A 3 page paper which examines how Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale demonstrates and incompatibility between courtly love and marriage. No additional sources cited.
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Tale one sees a story that involves characters who are essentially individuals of integrity as well as desire. In this story a woman offers her body up for the protection
and safety of her husband and in that one sees that courtly love and marriage are incompatible. The following paper examines this argument/perspective in The Franklins Tale. The Franklins
Tale: Courtly Love and Marriage In this story, as mentioned in the introduction, there is a young woman who offers her body in exchange for the safety and protection of
her husband. The woman, Dorigen, and her husband, Arviragus, fell in love and married and lived a very wondrous life together for a short while. They did not apparently make
demands of one another, gave one another a sense of freedom, and ultimately loved one another as equals. Their marriage was a very good one. But, there came a time
when Arviragus went away for two years and Dorigen worried about his safe return, fearing the rocks along the shore and what they may do to a ship in which
he was returning within. This is where a more courtly love comes into play as the character of Aurelius, who has adored and loved Dorigen from afar, consents to
help her and rid the shore of rocks if he can make love to her. Aurelius love is a courtly love in many respects. He has loved her from afar
and is truly only smitten with her in many ways. She does not return his love and in all honesty he does not really experience love for her in the
same way that her husband does. It is a love that is not geared for marriage because he is clearly willing to take her honor and respect, in taking her
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