Betrayal In The Knight's Tale Analysis

What is betrayal? Betrayal is to disappoint the hopes or expectations of; be disloyal to. In the Canterbury Tales, betrayal was expressed in many different ways and in many different stories.

The first example of betrayal is shown in “The Knight Tale”. The storie starts out by two swore brothers that get put in prision together. While they spent years in prision, they seen a very beautiful women in the gardens. They both really liked this girl and argued over her. After managing to get out of prision, they run into each other in the woods trying to get close to the beautiful women. They confront each other and have a duel over the women. The sworne brothers in the story betray each other by going to extreme lenghts to fight over a girl they hardly knew.

The second example of betrayal shown in “The Parddoners Tale”. The tale starts begins with three drunk rioters decide to find Death and kill it because it took one of their friends. They come across a old man and commands for the location of Death. The old man directs them under a oak tree. When they arrive under the oak tree, they were shocked at what found. Eight

bundels of gold was where Death supposeabley was.They were going to split the riches evenly. As one of the three heads to town to get bread and wine, the other two decide to betray their friend and kill him when he arrived so they can get more gold. Meanwhile while they were making a plan, the other man heading back to town was making one of his own. He put poison in the wine to kill the others so he could have all the gold. When he put poision under the tree, the other two stabbed and killed him. The two men where super happy and celebrated by drinking the wine. They later died from being poisoned. The story showed betrayal of friends because of greed.
The last example of betrayal that will be explained is from the tale “The Millers Tale”.

A Astrology studier named Nicholas bourded with a carpender named John. John had a eight-teen year old beautiful wife. Nicholas tricked John into thinking there was going to be a flood twice the size of Noahs just so he can sleep with his wife. When john fell asleep, Nicholas and Johns wife sleeps in carpenders bed. Nicholas betrayed John by sleeping with his wife.

Having a person betray someone can occur in many different ways. In the Caterbury Tales, betrayal to one another occurs often in the stories because of wanting a women, gold and greed. A person can learn that betraying can occur between just about anyone from sworne brothers, friends or even a person trying to save someones life. Trust worthy, people givin the right

reason,