: What elements do these examples of popular literature have in common with popular literature or other form of entertainment today? Marie de France's Lais ARE SHORT NARRATIVES OF LOVE, ADVENTURE, AND THE SUPERNATURAL. MOSTLY ABOUL LOVE SOMETIMES ENDING WITH A HAPPY NOTE SOMETIMES NOT.SOCIETY DICTATES AND INFLUENCES PEOPLE'S LOVE THEY FEEL BURDENED BY NOT BREAKING THE STANDARD BEHAVIOR FOR THEIR PERSONAL FULLFILLMENT.JUST LIKE MARIE DE FRANCE'S TALES ARE THE CANTERBURY TALES WITHOUT T.V. THE ENTERTAINMENT LIFE WAS ALL ABOUT STORY TELLING THE TALES RANGED FROM MEDIEVAL EPICS TO ROMANCE. I LIKED HOW SOME OF THE STORIES HAD SOME SORT OF MORAL OR MEANING BESIDES JUST SERVING HE POINT OF JUST BEING A STORY. THE CANTERBURY TALES HAD STORIES FROM ALL SORT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEN. THE CANTERBURY TALES WAS EASIER TO READ SINCE IT RHYMED. WOMEN ARE MORE MENTIONED THEY ARE EXPECTED O BE THE QUIET HOUSE WIFE WHEN REALLY THEY WANT TO SHARE THEIR LIFE LOVINGLY. I LIKED The Wife of Bath's Tale centers on feminine issues on the question what do women want most in marriages? I felt that it was that wives deserve kind and devoted husbands who will give up dominance in a marriage to them. The tale has a fairy-tale structure, but offers harsh elements. The so-called hero of the tale is a rapist. Even after the old woman saves him from execution, he behaves coldly and rude toward her. He is hardly worth the woman, even though she was old. He chooses to let go to the woman's rule in marriage and when he does this she becomes young and beautifull.
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