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Concentrating on lines 33-186, comment on the ways in which the theme of marriage is explored in the 'Merchant's Tale'
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... Jenny Steadman Concentrating on lines 33-186, comment on the ways in which the theme of marriage is explored in the 'Merchant's Tale' The theme of marriage runs throughout the whole of Chaucer's poem, a serious topic on which Chaucer wrote well and often. It could be argued that the views on marriage that are highlighted are those of the poet himself and that the fictional character of the Merchant is used as the poet's mouthpiece. When looking at the theme of marriage in the section, I clearly found a number of different attitudes including that of cynicism. I am going to discuss some of these attitudes in this essay and comment on the way in which the theme of marriage is explored. In the opening lines of the poem, the merchant begins to tell us the story of Januarie, for 60 years he lived without a wife and was satisfied with the
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