One side of the ancient circle sits and will always remain black, like the devil¡s heart. It is the dark force that represents all that is passive, weak, and cold. The other side is completely white and is the bright, the active, the upward and the strong like the angel¡s spirit. Like this circle, George Chaucer¡s The Wife of Bath¡s Tale and The Nun¡s Priest Tale sit on opposing sides. Both stories tell something disparate about male-female relationships, characterizations, general themes and moral lessons. With these variations, The Wife of Bath¡s Tale and The Nun¡s Priest Tale have nothing significant in common.
             For each tale, the relationship between male and female is defined differently. With The Nun¡s Priest Tale, Chanticleer, the central male figure, is dominant. He rejects Lady Pertelote¡s advice, his lover, on the topic of what to do over his dark premonition of the future. While her suggestion is pragmatic to his situation, to forget the dream and to take a tonic, he rejects it. Chanticleer uses dubious sources, questionable texts and short claims to substantiate his decision to take heed of his dream when he says, ¡§One of the greatest authors one can read/says thus¡K¡ (236-237). However Chanticleer does not reveal whose words he takes so stalwartly. He tries to pass himself as more knowledgeable and erudite than his common housewife. He also admires Pertelote like a token object along with six other hens and feathers her when he pleases. For The Wife of Bath¡s Tale, the female exerts more control over the male. In the story, the old woman was first given the right to request anything from the knight in exchange for advice. That proved to be a rash decision for the knight when he agreed without thinking on what possibly an old woman would want from a young strong male. Also, in the end, the knight, trusting his wife¡s judgment, gives her the right to decide whether she should transform into a young unf...