n one page, single-spaced, or two double-spaced pages, respond to one of the following prompts: How do the author of Sir Gawain and Marie de France critique the virtue of “trouthe”? In what ways do they present keeping one’s word as antithetical to acting virtuously? Discuss with regard to at least two texts.
How do Chaucer and Margery Kempe write themselves into their narratives as characters? How do they construct (and problematize) their own narrative authority? Who is more effective at controlling their narrative and why? The Wife of Bath and Margery Kempe are both worried about having their narratives misrepresented by men or clerks.
The Wife of Bath, for example, notes that if women themselves told tales of marital woe to match those of the authorities represented in Jankyn’s book of bad wives, they would show “of men more wikkednesse / Than al the merk of Adam may redress.” Do they manage to “repaint the lion,” so to speak? Put otherwise, do they succeed in portraying themselves in a positive light? For this question, discuss the arguments these women use to defend themselves and their lifestyles. Discuss the representation of chivalry and or knighthood in at least two texts.
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