Class Discussion Response

In completing the Knight's Tale, it is fair to say that Chaucer was in fact a chauvinist or woman hater. The Knight's Tale introduces a woman by the name of Emily whose purpose in the story can be defined by her physical features. In this story she is seen as something great that is out of reach. She is the carrot dangling in front of a horse, the cookie jar in the tallest cabinet, out of reach from children, she is a woman whose physical features and beautiful essence surpass that of Palamon and Arcite. Emily, in the knights tale seems to be nothing more than a trophy. Her unsophisticated role in this story leads the reader to think that Chaucer was a chauvinist as women in this story seemed to be nothing more than physical objects, whose purity and moral way of life are no rewarded.