Throughout the book of Canterbury Tales, there is a theme of different types of love. Among the characters, love can mean different things. The first set of characters are the two brothers from The Knights Tale, they both fall in love with the same girl, her name is Emily. Although the brothers love her, they are stuck in prison. They think that only one of them can win her heart, and so, they find themselves …showed first 75 words of 511 total…

…showed last 75 words of 511 total…oil for three days, then she is partially beheaded, but survives for yet another three days preaching the word the entire time. When Cecilia died, St Urbain dedicated a cathedral in her name. The point of it all, is that true love can be a dedication to God?s work in a monastic sense. This should give you some insight to what true love could look like to a character in Chaucer?s Canterbury tales.