Comparing Eyre And Federigo's Falcon From The Canterbury Tales

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People are complex beings with an abundance of different emotions and feelings. These emotions influence our actions in our everyday lives. But the emotion a person chooses to promote through their interactions with other people and situations determines how the end result will be. In the short stories “Federigo's Falcon” from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and “Pardoner’s Tale” from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, situational and dramatic irony is utilized display how the intention of a person’s decisions affects the outcome of a situation In “Federigo’s Falcon” Federigo’s generosity and love towards Monna results in him gaining her love in return. Desperate to help her son who has fallen ill Monna goes to Federigo and tells …show more content…

Initially, the rioters had set our after agreeing to band together as brothers to find and kill death. Yet when they met an old man that directed them to a pile of gold “no longer was it Death those fellows sought/ for they were all so thrilled to see the sight/ the florins were so beautiful and bright” (Chaucer 194-196). They were so distracted by the florins that they let it blind them from them from the task they set out to accomplish. Now their primary attention was on keeping the gold for themselves, rather than focusing on their noble agenda of killing death. Then, while the youngest of the rioters ran to town for supplies, the first of the other rioters declared to the other that “I’ll up and put my dagger through his back/...then draw your dagger too and do the same/...Then all this money will be ours to spend” (Chaucer 250, 252-253). But while those two rioters were conspiring to take the gold for themselves, the youngest rioter was getting poison to kill them both so he could have it to himself. Greed blinded the three rioters of rioters making them disregard their mission and their kinship, and causes them to kill each other and have no one obtain the gold. While their original intent was to kill Death, Death killed them by letting their cupidity consume

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