Canterbury Tales

Different types of Love in The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is not only a novel about pilgrim’s journey for five days from Southwark to Canterbury, but it is also a picture of love, despite the fact that it takes place in the fourteenth century and in England, far from modern society. The Pilgrims do a great job in revealing the English life at all levels of society. Chaucer relates love to different levels of society. Chaucer explains different types of love through the stories in each tale. Courtly love, true love, and vanity love are just few different types of love Chaucer reveals in The Canterbury Tales.
In the "Franklin's Tale," Geoffrey Chaucer paints a picture of a marriage in the tradition of courtly love. As Dorgan and Arveragus relationship reveals, a couple fulfilling the practices to courtly love rendering the possibility of genuine love. Marriage becomes a pretense to maintain courtly position because love provides the opportunity ...