Anger and Community in the Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Griffith, John Lance.
Anger and Community in the Knight's Tale
- Published
- Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics 41 (2008): 13-45.
- Description
- Reads KnT as a "tale of anger rather than (as is often the case) a tale of pity" which reveals Chaucer's ambivalence about anger as both "necessary and destructive" in human affairs. Explores Thomistic and Stoic notions of anger and assesses the character of Theseus as a figure of anger--one who "struggles with the burden of making his peace with God"--commenting on Chaucer's attitudes toward anger elsewhere in his works, especially Mel and PrT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Tale of Melibee
- Parson and His Tale