the generosity and the readiness to give up one’s possessions as an act of fairness or charity. To this I give my name, my faith and honour, as I am a knight” (53)Īnother chivalry component is Freedom, i.e. an honorable conduct with allies, foes, prisoners, or those with whom you had a bond or obligation can be seen in such verses To Emily. the ability to make good all vows and obligations owed in a hierarchical world can be seen from the verse, “And swore on oath that as he was true knight, So far as it should lie within his might” (29) the ability to subdue a foe in battle, it could be seen from the description of Duke’s greatness, “He conquered Creon there, the Theban king, and slew him manfully, as became a knight,” (29) The first component of chivalry – Prowess, i.e. Theseus is the ideal figure, and further as the judge in the dispute between Arcite and Palamon. The narration opens as a representation of the duke, and the description of his merits, although it would be logical to expect at the very beginning of the story to be representative of the central figures of the narration, Arcite and Palamon.
He was presented at the very beginning of the story as an ideal image, an embodiment of nobleness, wisdom, justice and military qualities. The central figures of the narration are Arcite and Palamon, although it could be noticed that the central image is Theseus, duke of Athens. This paper analyzes the presence of these components, which are Prowess, Truth, Honor, Freedom, Courtesy and Glory, in the light of story’s structure and the poetic means used by the author to give a complete picture of the novel’s characters. Considering the image of the Knight, as an ideal figure presented by Chaucer in “The Knight’s Tale” as an embodiment of virtue, nobleness and honor, this figure represented by the novel’s characters describes the components of Chivalry. The Canterbury Tales, in general represent a moral tale in which the customs and the traditions of English modern society were written off directly from nature. The Canterbury Tales-the most celebrated Chaucer work is a collection of stories concluded in one framework. In the history of the English literature Geoffrey Chaucer is undoubtedly the biggest poetic name up to Shakespeare, where the best of his works - “The Canterbury Tales” is certainly one of the greatest literary works of the English Middle Ages in which Renaissance features are clearly breaking through.
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