Critic Quotes For Chaucer's Merchants Tale Flashcards
1
Q
Milton
A
Where love cannot be, there can be left of wedlock nothing
2
Q
Tolliver
A
January’s inability to analyse Mays deceit is essentially his refusal to accept it
3
Q
Shoaf
A
His private property has betrayed him
4
Q
Wagenknecht
A
January’s blindness reflects the ignorance of women he’s shown all along
5
Q
Coghill
A
January is helpless, romantic, tragic
6
Q
Aers
A
Woman is a commodity and marriage is an institution to secure the transaction
7
Q
Traversi
A
The merchant in his dissolutionment does not advocate romantic settlement
8
Q
Ashton
A
This portrayal of married love is clearly on the side of the female
