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- The Merchant's View on Marriage
- Cynical views
- His own experience
- 2 months of marriage
- Feels trapped within his marriage
- 'I wolde nevere eft comen in the snare'
- Imagery of prey being captured. Idea of vulnerability
- Resentful of his wife
- Desries to be 'unbounden'
- 'I wolde nevere eft comen in the snare'
- 'Thise monthes two'
- Feels trapped within his marriage
- 'sorwe'
- The Merchant is an unhappy married man
- Intolerable, nagging wife
- 'The worst that may be'
- 'shrewe'
- 'For thogh the feend to hire ycoupled were, she wolde him overmacche'
- His wife would defeat the Devil
- 'I telle may namoore'
- Refuses to speak more about his wife and marriage
- 2 months of marriage
- Makes many references to the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve live in perfect happiness until Eve is tempted to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree
- Believes Women to be the cause of the downfall of man
- 'the fruit of his tressor'
- Juxtaposition of life ('fruit') and money ('treasure')
- 'the fruit of his tressor'
- Believes Women to be the cause of the downfall of man
- Talks of women who are resourceful and successful, but also have theme of deception in common.
- Makes all women seem decietful
- His own experience
- Positive
- Role of the wife
- Wife belongs to husband - she is his property
- 'to love and serve'
- Married men live a happy and ordered life
- ''herte in joy and bliss'
- 'his paradis'
- 'to kepe him'
- Her role is to help him work, to be wise and full of wisdom
- 'She kepeth his good'
- 'so wise'
- Wife belongs to husband - she is his property
- Merchant believes women are a gift from God
- He refers to the knight as 'worthy'
- 'A wyf is Goddes yifte'
- Merchant equates God's gift of a wife with material goods
- 'Mariage is a ful greet sacrement'
- marriage between man and woman reflects relationship between Christ and Church
- Role of the wife
- Cynical views
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