Isolation and Individuality in the Franklin's Tale

Author / Editor
Wright, Michael J.

Title
Isolation and Individuality in the Franklin's Tale

Published
Studia Neophilologica 70 (1998): 181-86.

Description
FranT is set in a pre-Christian age, but Dorigen prays to God and thus achieves the status of a good pagan. She is portrayed as an individual rather than a socially rule-bound wife. Chaucer celebrates individuality through her, but he also recognizes the social and personal cost resulting from that individuality.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.