"The Canterbury Tales" By Chaucer

I found myself also questioning what women want when reading this story. In movies and stories alike many men have wandered what the answer is to this mysterious question. The young knight had many answers to consider. I believe the knight's choices and reactions to that which he is faced with, is in all what women want. You can not single out any one thing, but more so an umbrella of concepts to suffice women's wants. Next, I found it wrong that the young knight had raped this girl, and his life was spared. In a time when the penalty for committing rape was death, the queen granted him a second chance for life if he could find the answer to what women want- a task considered to be absurd to men especially in this day and age. The outcome of the story is made apparent once the young night has come back with no answer and happens to run into the elder lady. I am, at this point, thinking to myself what she will make him promise to do in return for the answer to what women want. I felt that the whisper in his ear was something that was to punish him for escaping death, and possibly dooming him in another way. To his and my surprise, the old lady tells him that he is to marry her. Now, I get the feeling that it was pre-meditated and planned since the beginning (that this was what was in store for him all along). Then, I was shocked to learn that she gave him the choice of how he wanted her to look, and he chose to let her make the choice. The next morning, she awoke a beautiful woman. This is what disappointed me because this knight was granted a beautiful young woman when in the beginning he was supposed to be punished for raping a girl. As the story continues, the woman shows that the knight acting as her "love slave" gives her pleasure. He is there to do follow her every order and satisfy her every sexual need. So, the conclusion is made that the answer that the knight gave to the queen was actually not only told

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