Q. What deal does the Knight make with the old woman?
What deal does the knight make with the old woman he meets, and how does he fulfill his bargain with her? In exchange for the correct answer to the queen’s question, the knight will do whatever the old woman asks of him. To fulfill the bargain, he marries her, because that is her demand.
Q. What does the knight offer the old woman instead of marriage?
The Knight accepts the Old Woman’s offer, and the Old Woman reveals that she is truly a young wife that any knight would be proud to have. The irony of this story is the fact that the Knight committed a crime against a woman where he had complete control over her, yet a woman has control over him in the end!
Q. What offer does the old lady make to the knight on his wedding night what are the Knight’s two choices?
Ultimately, what two choices does the old woman give the knight? She says he can either stay with her and well she be old and ugly but she will always be true to him and will treat him good, or he can leave and find a pretty girl who will not be as loyal and cheat on him.
Q. Why does the Knight honor his part of the bargain with the old woman?
Why does the Queen force the knight to keep his part of the bargain? The knight agrees to do what the old woman wants after she tells him the secret to what women desire most. The queen believes the knight should marry the woman to keep his honor.
Q. What does the old lady demand from the Knight in exchange for her having helped him?
What is the Knight’s response? SHE DEMANDS FOR HIM TO MARRY HER. HE IS UPSET AND SAYS SHE IS: Old, ugly, poor or Low Born.
Q. Does the Knight from The Wife’s Tale learn his lesson?
The knight eventually learns his lesson, although it takes him a while. With him, then, the tale seems to be encouraging women not to give up hope on the men in their lives; they may make some mistakes, but they’ll come around in the end.
Q. Why does the queen ask the king not to kill the knight in The Wife of Bath’s Tale?
Why does the queen ask the king not to kill the knight in The Wife of Bath’s Tale? She thinks it is more important to teach him a lesson than to kill him.
Q. What does Canterbury symbolize?
Canterbury is the symbol of the celestial city: the and of life. The journey of the pilgrims becomes the allegory of the course of the human life. The work is unfinished and Canterbury is not reached by the pilgrims.
