Gender Roles In Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron

In the time and setting that Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is taking place in, women are held in a lower social standing than men. The only way that woman was viewed in people’s eyes was that of a wife and mother to her family. Considering the role that woman play with their family, during that it is important to note that these roles were taken very seriously, therefore also rewarded. In one novella that the standards and expectations of being a wife are upheld would have to be the novella Griselda on the tenth day and the tenth story that talked about the Marquis of Sanluzzo, Gualtieri, and his bride Griselda. The narrator of the story was Dioneo. He begins by saying that during that day the stories have been about the topic of nobility. He’ll tell a story about a
One of those similarities are, the way the symbol that Calandrino is searching for is described. This is the black rock called heliotrope. In both the book and the film the symbols description remaining the same is perhaps could be to give power to the importance of the rock in both settings. The book says on page 561 “the magical stones.” The word magical were left in both the film and the book to represent the transformation Calandrino would think was about to happen to him. Also the description on page 563 says that the color all are very nearly black. Another similarity was who accompanied Calandrio to look for these rocks. Bruno and Buffalmacco were the two that initially told Calandrino that the stone did work. They both went with him to pretend to look for this stone and they both stood by the prank the whole way. The reason for this similarity was because the film as well as the film both wanted to establish how Calandrino felt about the other two painters. The book expresses how Calandrino wanted to inform them both about his discovery before even going alone. Those were some of the similarities that I