The Ironic Design of Fortune in "Troilus and Criseide."

Description: Locates and assesses a prevailing irony in TC: the narrator and each of the major characters follows the "same pattern" of early knowledge of Fortune's instability, "followed by self-deception, and eventual submission to the facts." Love and truth only seem to delay Fortune in human affairs, although Chaucer celebrates the "unstable and attractive world."