973-1006 Flashcards
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-she burst into tears reminding him that she has immortal souls to look after just as he does as well as a woman the honour
-If she was to ever bring shame and her family may she be tied in the sack and throw in the river
-Men are always unjust suspicious of women-
-At that moment she spots in the bush and signals to him to climb the fruit tree
-He immediately does so as she has already described what to do in a letter and he understands her perfectly
“ I have a soule for to keep” “ I have assured you in our bond” “ i ne sterve” (stray)
-maisie hypocrisy in this passage is audacious
-She pays lip service to the teachings of the mediaeval Christianity which condemn the unfaithful wife to hell
-Whilst simultaneously setting the stage for her own sexual infidelity
“ but men been evere untrewe”
Her assertion that men are always accusing women of infidelity is born up by the subject of this tail and its anti-feminist precursors.
-Like choices wife bath she complains about the way women are stereotypes whilst simultaneously acting out to the stereotype
“ put me in a sak and in the next river do me drenche”
-her melodramatic suggestion that if she’s unfaithful she should be stripped put in a sack and put in the river while I enter the comic irony of the passage, can be read is a narrators Fervent no wish for all unfaithful women
“With her fingers signs made she” “ that charged was with fruit’ “my wyfhood this tender flour”
-The narrator does not describe the science she and Damian make to each other
-but the detail that she used her finger is sexually suggestive
-additionally the fact that the tree he climbs is full of fruit has a number of connotations
-Fruit imagery is frequently associated with sex particularly the pear tree
-Which features in Lude popular anonymously versus of the period as well as in one of the stories in the Decameron by choice’s Italian contemporary Giovanni Boccaccio
- May call her wifehood attend a flower but the passage indicates by metonymy that she’s lesser flower than a ripe fruit
“ climbed upon a tree”
-most specifically this passage fulfils the biblical theme which was set up earlier
-The garden is a parody of the garden of Eden with the devil in guys of an ad hiding in a fruit tree tempting Eve to eat the fruit of knowledge and learn the nature of good and evil “ naddre in bosom sly untrewe”
-damien is the temperature although in this instance arguably may has been setting the pace
-She already knows the difference between God and evil but choose to ignore the information in her quest for sexual gratification
