Synthesis and the Double Standard in the "Franklin's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Gray, Paul Edward.
Synthesis and the Double Standard in the "Franklin's Tale."
- Published
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language 7 (1965): 213-24.
- Description
- Argues that Dorigen and Arveragus's agreement at the beginning of FranT "to marry and remain courtly lovers" reflects the Franklin's illusory "double standard" that falsely assumes compatibility between marital and courtly love, symbolically undercut by the stark contrast between rocks and garden. The plot of the Tale reveals the incompatibility of the two views of love and the Franklin's inability to perceive it.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Franklin and His Tale