This story represents the knighthood and what a big deal it meant to be a knight in this time when gods where the kings and queens of the heavens and love was real and pure. This story can be seen as a comparison to the present days, by comparing the meaning of honor. At that time the word honor meant something totally different and today it is almost a vague resemblance to the fidelity a husband has for a wife, in which many cases it doesn't exist. In this story Honor is what controls every action of everyones daily life, specially knights. Does the word honor means something in today's world? Does a man fights for a women's love and it does it with honor and dignity? or did we became a bunch of fighting nomads that dispute in the most inhuman ways?
The Canterbury tales, specially this one, has a renovated version of the true meaning of love, which that for those times can be seen in many ways, as a love so deep that it is confused with the one of the gods, and a love that it is present since the first sight.
This is the best example we can get from this tale, because we see here how Arcite one of the brothers, thinks that he loved her first because he thinks he loves her as a women and not like his brother which may be confusing his love with a vision from the gods. This implies that the author is trying to show us that even in the old days, love may be confused with other types of feelings like respect and sense of honor like for example in this case love and respect for the gods.
Love and honor are two things inside this story that has shown that as time goes by it changes its significance and can be transformed into something really good or extremely bad.
Gabriela Arroyo
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