Canerbury Tales vs The Decameron
...meron, by Giovanni Daccaccio, the roles of men and women are what you would expect of a western society in the 1300's. Women are generally seen aa gentle beings. There was a very distinct line that separated men from women. Through out the storeis i noticed a consistent story line of women being very loyal to their men. The men would do terrible things to women. In some cases the husbands would actually put the wife through unimaginable sufferings. In the canterbury tales, the roles that society gave males and females were much different. chaucer cleverly reveals a particular social condition of England during the time. In this period, the status, role, and attitudes towards women were clearly different from that of The decameron. In the middle ages, most women married and began aising children soon after reaching puberty. They remained largely ind...