Franklin
I first found out about our homework from elliot, he called me and asked me if i have looked at how much reading we have to do, then he told me we have to read a grand total of 50 pages in one night. Later that night i remembered that 2 pages in the canterbury tales is equivalent to 1 page in a normal book, so we really only had to read 25 pages. At the beginning of Franklins tale i thought it was going to be exactly like the general prologue so i was not thrilled at all about it. As i continued reading i got into it more and more and i was really liking the direction the tale was heading.
In franklins tale a story that is set in Brittany (America), where a young man of with the name Arviragus and Dorigen promise to give either other there hearts and all of it. One day Arviragus tells Dorigen that he is going to have to leave for Britain for a year or 2 for a great knight challenge. While Arviragus is gone to Britain Dorigen is very said and because of this stays home and cries and waits for her true love to come back home. Dorigen’s friends all try to cheer her up by bringing her to the beach and to a garden near by the have picnic, but it does not work. One day while Dorigen and her friends went out to a show and meet a man named Aurelius. Aurelius is in love with Dorigen and has been for a while, so he goes up to her and asks her to go on a date with him like and she says that she has a husband that she is happy with and that she is truly in love with. So to get him to go away she tells him that if he clears all of america of rocks then she will love him with all he heart. Aurelius goes to a magician and asks him to raise the sea 5 fathoms to get rid of all the rocks. The magician is able to do so and Aurelius then travels back to Dorigen and shows her what he has done. By that time Dorigen’s husband is already back and tells her that he would rather die then live life with her not following her word. So she is forced to love Aurelius.
I think there are plenty of different project ideas that someone could do with this like making the group act out that play in detail. Also one could do a powerpoint in which that group would maybe list the characters and there importance in the tale. Also you could go into detail on how this tale might reflect the narrator. another thing you could do is describe how the tale might have courtly romance or courtly love and what the difference is between them.
