The Role of Destiny in "The Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Fletcher, P. C. B.

Title
The Role of Destiny in "The Knight's Tale."

Published
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 26 (June 1966): 43-50.

Description
Compares the characterizations of Palamon and Arcite in KnT, focusing on the relative intensity of their responses to love and arguing that, rather than fortune, their actions and passions determine their outcomes. Arcite"s fall from his horse is the “only real intervention of Fate in the Tale."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale