Chaucer's The Knight's Tale

However, the author does not expect to enjoy the war-like atmosphere of Theseus' Thebes. In one passage we gibe Chaucer's criticism of war, which appears to be the piling up of dead bodies for in-person glory, "And dide with al the contree as hym lest. / To ransake in the taas of bodyes dede, / Hem for to strepe of harneys and of wede, / The pilours diden bisynesse and cure / afterward the bataille and discomfiture" (Chaucer, 1004-1008).

We see in this tale that war is something that not only inte

feres with the happiness of universe but also the happiness of the gods. As Anfield (p.

2) notes, "A fit of knights, equal in worthiness, view for Emily, who will be forsaken by her goddess. All three are of noble birth...Mirroring the microcosm of man is the existence of the gods."

Chaucer, G. "The Knight's Tale," (Parts I-IV). Viewed on Jan 11, 2005: http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm

Anfield, K. "Chaucer's Knight's Tale." Viewed on Jan 11, 2005: http://www.chalacyn.com/~talyce/text/knight.html,
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