What Is The Mood Of The Knights Tale

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In lines 952-74 of The Knights Tale in Canterbury Tales Chaucer uses imagery, tone, and characterization in order to draw attention to the tale’s overall themes of courtly love and knightly companionship, which reinforces the genre of the work as a medieval romance. Medieval romance, which was popular in Chaucer’s day due to the success of the Arthurian Legends, usually consisted of an epic figure of a knight or a hero who would go off on an adventure either to prove himself worthy of the love of a lady or in order to help a lady whom he encounters along the way. The lady in question did not always need to be young and beautiful or even the object of the knight’s affections, occasionally even shown in some legends as elderly or a monstrous

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