Fate and Freedom in 'The Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Schweitzer, Edward C.
Fate and Freedom in 'The Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (1981): 13-45.
- Description
- Precise astrological material and medical details pertaining to the disease "amor hereos" support the theory that Saturn and the fury that startles Arcite's horse dramatize the consequences of human choice rather than fatalism. Chaucer uses Boethius's "Consolation" to turn apparent contradictions between universal order and particular disorder into significant paradox.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.