Women As Represented In Society By Anita Kay...

In Men and Women as Represented in Medieval Literature in Society by Anita Kay OPry-Reynolds-Renolds you can find a different way of how women men were supposed to act during the Medieval time period. She finds evidence from different Medieval works of literatures to help support her thesis. OPry-Reynolds uses some details from Beowulf, Lancelot, Knight of the Cart, and Sir Gawain and The Green Knight to show the different gender roles between men and women. The details OPry-Reynolds finds from the different Medieval literatures in her essay are not supported in The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and The Wife of Bath. Anita Kay OPry-Renolds Men and Women as Represented in Medieval Literature in Society explains how men and†¦show more content†¦Chaucer writes about the Women from bath who had five husbands. It was very rare for women to have more than one husband because they didn’t believe in divorce. Men and women from the middle ages had different roles in society that they had to live up to. The gender rules they had to abide by was very strict. It was considered not normal to step outside of the bounds of the gender roles assigned to them. (OPry-Reynolds 41). It was not usual for women to do the roles of a man and vice versa. Just like in The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales the nun and the monk would never be caught doing each others job. The women in middle age were vessels of chastity, purity, and good ness. This meant that the ladies would not go lay in bed with any and every man they met. They would find the one and be loyal to him till death. The men during this time would go on quest to show off how strong they were. The supporting roles in Medieval literature for men and women had been very different. The men were always the ones looking for a battle to fight if not n their own village then in other lands. (OPry-Reynolds 38). Men could only be the heroes in Medieval Literature by who he is, his quest, and his victories (OPry-Reynolds 37). If this was not the case for some men they could not be heroes. In most Medieval Literature the women had roles that were just for support. They would be the characters