What do women want?

What do women want?

I need to admit that reading and analyzing this tale was not an easy task at all. However, after socializing the reading was way easier to understand the words of Chaucer.

What do women want? What a difficult question to answer. Alison definitely wanted to break the mole and she did it in lots of ways.

The image of women we get from the tale is full of bravery. Allison also shows that women want control of everything around them. She personifies a strong-willed woman who doesn’t like to be defeated. Women want to be dominant of their own body, sexual freedom.

I truly enjoyed reading this tale. I think it’s very important to know more about history and process and reading literature is a very fascinating way to do so.

I try to reflect on the overall meaning of this story. I don’t like the way the protagonist uses sex to manipulate men in order to get what she wants. I think this fact instead of contributing to women’s rights it plays a role of bad used strategy.

TRUTH

Chaucer wants to express what he understands for truth. He also wants us to reflect on his lines, a reflection about the life we have been having.
"Be satisfied with what you have, even if it isn´t much" this is the second line of the text and I think this means a lot. We can apply this to the reality we live in. People are never satisfied with what they have; in terms of everything, material stuff, etc. So, for me this is a calling to stick to the true life that Chaucer believes in. A religious aspect of the human life is also well manifested here. Obedience and thankfulness of what is realy important and relevant for us. "Much joy is spent on trivial matters" I absolutely agree with this statement. After reading this poem I thought about what truth really is. I got to the conclusion that nowadays nobody has the truth of anything. There are just individual pieces of truth.

Truth

Truth

My definition of an epic poem

As Beowulf is one of the first epic poems found in old English I can predict that epic poems have to do with showing or telling what happened during a specific time in history. So epic poems are an important part of the base to understand the roots of what we think we are. After reading chapters of Beowulf I could notice that there are a lot of features from the target culture shown in a fictional piece of paper. So by reading an epic poem we can get to know more about the traditions and customs of a certain group of people. The fact that is a poem means to me that is written in a smooth and beautiful way.

literature what for?

“That the aim of literary analysis is to lear about the instruments that literary analysis uses. Reading poems and novels does not lead to making the students think about the human conditions, about the individual and society, about love and hate, and about joy and despair, but about critical concepts, whether traditional or modern. At school, pupils do not learn what literature talks about but instead what critics talk about”. (What is literatute for. Tzvetan Todorov.Page 18.

After thinking about the real purpose of literature; I realised there is no point in reading a text, whatever its nature is, just to remember dates, characters or facts. So, if we think that literature seeks to stimulate a reaction on the reader; reaction that might be undefined due to the fact it depends on the reader’s point of view. Then teachers are a relevant element to spread the social dimension of literature; a social dimension that needs to have a space inside our classrooms. As Todorov states, schools should give students the opportunity to discover to be critic about what they are reading. Teachers need to let our students know about the importance of a critical reading. It’s good and advisable to analyse whatever we are reading. Perhaps not to share the posture of the writer but to understand that each and everyone of us have a different way of seeing. It’s also healthy for a community to discuss the current issues by reading what some other person has written about them.
After all literature is at the service of people and not the other way around.