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Courtly Love in the Franklin\\\'s Tale
In the \\\"Franklin\\\'s Tale,\\\" Geoffrey Chaucer satirically paints a picture of a marriage steeped in the tradition of courtly love. As Dorigen and Arveragus\\\' relationship reveals, a couple\\\'s preoccupation with fulfilling the ritualistic practices appropriate to courtly love renders the possibility of genuine love impossible. Marriage becomes a pretense to maintain courtly position because love provides the opportunity to demonstrate virtue. Like true members of the gentility, they practice the distinct linguistic and behavioral patterns which accompany the strange doctrine of courtly love. The characters\\\' true devotion to the relationship becomes secondary to the appearance of practicing the virtues of truth, honor, and generosity. After establishing the inverted hierarchy of values, Chaucer paints a bleak picture of the potential for love and relationships in a world in which a distinction needs to be made between secular and private roles. Dorigen differentiates between \\\"hir housbonde\\\" and \\\"hir love\\\" (250) and Arveragus distinguishes between \\\"his lady\\\" and \\\"his wyf\\\" (125).
Immediately, Chaucer signals the practice of chivalric courtship as the knight who is of noted \\\"heigh kinrede\\\" (63) ceremoniously completes the \\\"many a labor\\\" (60) of a courtly lover. The description of the duties that must be undertaken by a classic courtly lover seeking a wife for social fulfillment corruptss the image of courtship being motivated by the existence of true love. The emphasis on the inconvenience with which Arveragus, \\\"dide his payne\\\" (57) suggests he performs \\\"many a greet empryse\\\" (59) out of obligation and convention rather than as a part of a genuine amorous pursuit. The weakly disguised presence of the \\\"ye\\\" in each of these words announces Arveragus\\\' awareness of the eyes of the courtly audience...
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