A Reading of Chaucer's Franklin's Tale: The Different Understanding of 'Trouthe' in Ideal Marriage

Author / Editor
Noji, Kaoru.

Title
A Reading of Chaucer's Franklin's Tale: The Different Understanding of 'Trouthe' in Ideal Marriage

Published
Bulletin of Yamamura Women's Junior College 3 (1991): 245-62.

Description
Explicates FranT, focusing on the characterization of Dorigen and how it reveals the "social compromises which women are conditioned to make." The "cracks in mutual understanding" between Dorigen and Arveragus also reveal how the values of women and men differ.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale