Two tales of deception

The canterbury tales ahd many simularities and differences between them all, but what i am ging to compare and contrast are the Merchants tale and The nun's Priest. Between the two tales that were told on the way to Canterbury seemed to be different, but yet, sounded the same when it came to the moral of the story as well as the love complexities that they had as well. True cheating and deception was going on in the Merchants tale, but there also was somewhat a sense of loyalty that she ahd for him.
The merchant became blind, so he coudltn see the way she was going to cheat on him, but he didnt know that he was going to get his sigth back wehn she atucaly did the affiar with another man that he had his eyes on and hers on his. true, she cheated on him, and admitted it in a way which she could try to turn the tables off of her to him saying that she helped him get curred from his blindness. He later acepted that she really did help him and went on their way out of the orchad.
The Nun's Priest had some simularities to the Merchants tale as well. There was a cook that had his eyes on one hen that was the finest of all hens in the coop. He loved her ever since shew as born, and vould that he would marry her. She grew up and they married like he set out to do in the first place. There was this fox that took the cooks father away while he was still a baby. Supposedly the cook had a voice that was the most beautiful of all cooks that croked in the morning sun. The fox led the cook away form the farm, telling him that he sould sing for the fox just like his father did. The cook was nieve to think the fox, a natural preditor, wanted a cook to sing for him. In the end, the fox took the cook and dragged him to the woods.
The simularities between the two tales were that the nieveness of the two men. The merchant thought that the wife had sex with the other man to cure his blindness. The cook that was overly selfobsorbed believed that the fox was going to be nice to him and wanted to hear his voice.
In the end of the two simular and contrasting tales there were simularities and differences but mainly differences for various reasons.


By: Paige Ruppert