Canterbury Tales 2: What a Character

Student's Tale

• simile
• sophism- fallacious argument
• told by scholar
• light-hearted tones
• marquis- above count, below duke, is a noble man
• people speak to marquis about getting marries
• they want him to rush to get married, so he will have an heir to the throne because they like him as their ruler so much
• the servants like the marquis rule and they don't want a stranger to take over
• he doesn't want a wife and doesn't want them to choose
• God will choose
• she doesn't have to be rich