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 for coping with life’s unruliness. Under all these codes, however, there lurks intense fear for anarchy which is repressed beneath the story’s controlled narrative style.
• Examine Theseus’s fascination with order (both civic and cosmic), and his profound fear of disorder, taking into account his social rank and chivalric duties. Consider, in particular, how successful this model sovereign, Christian, conqueror, and courtly lover, is in preserving the order he reveres. ALL CLAIMS SHOULD BE ACCURATE AND EVIDENCED BASED ON THE ORIGINAL MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXT.
