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CORTLY LITERATURE’S WOMEN
Idealised, distant, aristocrat, fine, courtly, elegant
Symbol of all perfection
LORD RANDAL’S MOTHER
Interested in the inheritance
Cruel, selfish, concerned
She shows no feelings for her son’s suffery, she’s bloody
She’s a sense of black humour
Bossy, arrogant, wicked, liar, perfideous, arrogant, rough, not refine, determinated because they had to survive! Feelings, love, sexual satisfaction are less important than the desire to be socially and economically independent: the laws of the time didn’t grant any right to women.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
Medieval French author ALAIN CHARTIER, who wrote this very famous ballad that inspired the English romantic poet Lord Byron
FRENCH FABLIAUX
In the “Le dix de perdrix” the women is a liar
WIFE OF BATH
Extroverted, not interested in sexual satisfaction but in money, she is bossy and dominant: she’s got them wholly in her hand, she governed them by her own law; she’s wicked, she wrongfully dominate men; in her opinion she’s wise
PRIORESS
Refined, noble, elegant, she has good manners, she speaks French, pleasant, friendly; ambiguous: she seems more a worldy lady than a nun
Symbol of a certain way of living in the nunneries and convents of the time (but Chaucer says that with a subtle gentil irony, he doesn’t chastise but he only suggests)