Deception and Self-Deception in 'The Franklin's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell, Susan.
Deception and Self-Deception in 'The Franklin's Tale'
- Published
- Proceedings of the PMR Conference 1 (1976): 67-72.
- Description
- Contrasts Dorigen of FranT with the biblical Eve: where Eve falls because of her desire for knowledge, Dorigen nearly falls for lack of knowledge, particularly her lack of self-knowledge as is evident in her complaint against the rocks and her playful promise to Aurelius. Both the complaint and the promise deviate from Augustinian notions of the place of humanity in divine order.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations