GENRE PARAGRAPHS

The Knights Tale Paragraph

If the genre is chivalric romance, it usually has chivalric knights and romance. The knights tale is an accurate example of what chivalric romance is.  Two knights Palamon and Arcite both love Emily with all their hearts and there is a joust at the end to determine who will marry her.  One reason as to why this is the chivalric romance is ,  when Palamon and Arcite duel to "win" Emily, it is unusual because normal knights did not joust and the lances  used were meant to break on impact, also when Arcite escapes Palamon does not tell anyone he has gone. At the end of the joust Palamon gets unhorsed, and as soon as he is announced loser of the joust competition Arcite is struck by lightning, You can interpret this as gods gift to Palamon as he was, in the end, more chivalric than Arcite.

 The Knights Tale is a chivalric romance because Palamon and Arcite (knights) both love Emily.

The Pardoners Tale Paragraph

If the script is a morality tale it has a moral, it does not have talking animals and is not usually a short story. The Pardoners Tale is a good example of this. It is a tale about three Thugs who find gold under a tree instead of death as an old man has told them. The gold is really the personification of death, as within the tale it kills all of them in the end. This is a morality tale as the moral at the end is, "If you're looking for death, you will be sure to find him." This relates to how the thugs are looking for death, but they find an "innocent" bag of gold that eventually turns them all crazy, Dick and Harry turn on Tom and Tom turns against Dick and Harry. In the end, Dick and Harry kill Tom by stabbing him and Tom kills them both with poison. At the end the line " Dick and Harry raise Their daggers behind each other's backs ready to stab each other" but Tom has already laced the wine with poison and it kills them before they stab each other. The main reason to why this is a morality tale because of the moral at the end.