Due October 20th- Monday
To further develop our argumentative/analytical writing skills, I want you write an argumentative paragraph over the Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, or Wife of Bath's tale. Think about some of the concepts we talked about roles of women, the Seven Deadly Sins and their consequences, comparing/contrasting two of the tales, or how the speaker(Knight, Miller, or Wife of Bath), the idea of the quest in Wife of Bath's tale, or another argument. This is similar to the people paragraph.
Evaluation Criteria:
-Topic Sentences, Supporting Detail Sentences, and Wrap Up Sentence
-Using at least three vocabulary words from Vocabulary lists one and two
-Use at least one quotation from the text and cite line numbers.
-incorporate two delayed adjectives or adjective phrases
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The answer for what women most want. Probably every man in the world wants to have this power. And the Wife of Bath's tale shows that, although you can go out and start asking women what they most want, the vast majority of them don't know what they want and if they know it is something of no value or something that is not RELEVANT."For God knows, we women can no thing conceal."(78) Nevertheless, the women you would never expect to have such a good answer has it. The one that nobody wants. The SQUALOR one.
This quest may represent something more than just a tale, a story. It may not be saying that you will save your life by having the answer the knight was looking for, but maybe it will save a great load of time and effort if you simply know their most intimate desire and then, you won't squander a lot of time trying to conquer a woman, because you will do it the first time you want.
Throughout the Canterbury Tales, we learned a lot about the Seven Deadly Sins and their consequences. Not every one of these sins were present in these tales, but they had a great effect on the stories.
In the Knight's Tale, Palamon and Arcita have a CONCORD friendship that is broken up when Palamon starts lusting after Emily, the Queen's sister. His lustful behavior PRECEDENTS the anger that will come between them. Arcita, after being released from prison, starts lusting after Emily. Palamon-"Either I shall be dead or you shall die, you shall not love my lady Emily, but I will love her, and non other, no(606-608)." This leads to the battle between them and death to both.
In the Miller's Tale, John, the ROBUST but not ERUDITE carpenter, has married his very young wife, Alison. Her beauty catches the eyes of Nicolas and Absalom. Nicolas, the crude fellow, starts lusting after her and his greed propels him to try and get her. Absalom, the more DECOROUS one, tries to attract Alison, but to no avail. Nicolas tricks John into thinking that a flood is going to come and he should get ready for it. John falls into the trap, Nicolas gets Alison, and poor Absalom, trying to attract Alison, gets farted in the face.
Finally, in the Wife of Bath's Tale, a knight under King Arthur, lusts after a farm maiden. He is supposed to die, but the Queen saves him, and he has to go on a quest in return to find out what women really desire. After traveling transiently for 12 months, he found his answer from an old, ugly hag. "Women desire to have the sovereignty as well upon their husband as their love and to have mastery their man above (130-135)." As a result, the knight's answer was suitable, he got the women he want, and he lived happily ever after.
The FRENETIC women in the story, lack conceptual thought as they break almost every deadly sin, very knowingly. In the Wife of Bath the wife is a vary vulgar women who doesn't know what a relationship really means, and has the whole "sex" thing messed up. I am DUBIOUS to the fact that she has any intelligence left. The only one with a little dignity is the women from the Knights Tale, Emily who prays for protection from the two squabbling men, dauntingly. "This grace i pray thee, not one thing more, to send down love and peace between these two and turn their hearts away from me." (The Knights Tale, line 918-920) She receives this APPROBATION from the god she prays to.
In the stories “ The Knights Tale”, “The Miller’s Tale”, and “ The Wife of Bath’s Tale” women were either portrayed as a prize or objects to men who had no power or rights what so ever.
In “The Knight’s Tale” two men, Palamon and Arcita, fell in love with the fair Emily just at the sight of her. Neither had every seen or spoken to her before, but both were willing to fight to the death to win her as the “prize”. Emily’s brother-in-law was the one who decided who would “win” her. He did this without Emily’s permission. It was as though her word or happiness didn’t matter to him or anyone else. She was subordinated to all these men during this time.
Next, in “The Miller’s Tale”, Absolom and Nicholas both loved and coveted the heart of the beautiful Alison, who was married to a man by the name of John. Both men will do anything just to get just a single kiss from her. This story portrays Alison as a prize to a dumb rivalry between the two men.
Lastly, in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, a young knight ends up raping a woman and is sentenced to death, but he ends up getting pardoned on one condition: to find out what women really want. And as he is going through the forest he sees a group of fairies and as he approaches they disappear leaving behind and ugly old hag. The hag says she would give him the answer as long as he promised to do whatever she told him to. He agreed and she gave him the answer. When the knight returned to the queen, he told her, “Women desire to have the sovereignty, as well upon their husband as their love, and to have mastery their man above” (pg 96, 132-134). That basically stated that women want to have control and power over their husbands. That also gave women the characteristic of having no control over their men, of anything, or anyone. Women were portrayed as nothing but powerless prizes.
Rodrigo,
Your topic sentence for the paragraph was somewhat vague for me. What is your argument about the Wife of Bath's Tale? Overall, your sentence structure, while varied, contains fragment and run-ons. Nice use of the vocabulary words in the paragraph. I think you have an interesting idea you pose toward the end of the paragraph; however, I guess the paragraph lacks coherency;
Grade: 20/25
Josh,
-Good topic sentence, but maybe make even more argumentative; What are the consequences?--spell it out for us
-Concord is a noun instead of an adjective
-Precedent is a noun instead of a verb
-Good quotation to support argument
-great use of vocabulary words(adjectives) to describe John
-Nice use of appositive phrases
-connect the Wife of Bath's tale more firmly to the Seven Deadly Sins
-Josh, you could take this paragraph and easily have a great start for your Medieval Essay- that's a good thing;
Grade: 23/25
Drew,
-great topic sentence although the comma between 'story' and 'lack' is not needed
-maybe expand on some of your ideas a bit more explain why Alison has the whole monogamy idea messed up
-'very'instead of 'vary'
-nice use of delayed adverbs; use delayed adjectives as well
-use "/" marks to indicate breaks in lines.
-the end of the paragraph ends abruptly; flesh out why Emily's the model woman compared to the others
-I guess your examples of women lacking discretion could be more developed
Grade: 22/25
Kenna,
-Great focused topic sentence!!!
-Good explanation of the Knight's Tale and relating it to your argument
-drop the 'd' at the end of subordinated
-be careful with consistent verb tense from past to present with the Miller's Tale
-'lastly'- think of a better word choice
-I guess with the Wife of Bath's tale it doesn't follow your argument; instead the roles are reversed with women seeking dominion over men; maybe connect it your main premise by arguing that this notion downgrades women, but making them seem greedy or possessive
-incorporate other vocabulary words
-this is an excellent potential starter for the essay you have to write; you could definitely pull out some ideas;
Grade: 23/25
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