Examine Theseus’s fascination with order, and his profound fear of disorder, taking into account his social rank and chivalric duties.
TOPIC A: ORDER AND PASSION IN THE “KNIGHT’S TALE” Chaucer’s Knight seems concerned with order and there are noticeable attempts in the “General Prologue” and in the tale the character narrates to make sense of what seems to be ruled by chance or the passions. As the Knight’s spokesperson, Theseus has a sequence of codes […]