Happily Ever After

When I finished reading Parts III and IV of "The Knight's Tale," I realized how that story is so romanticized. The story is just like a fairytale were an honorable knight fights for a princess who's the love of his life and he always ends up with her. Even though the style of "The Knight's Tale" is different from usual fairytales, the plot line is pretty the much the same. There's irony and sarcasm in the story, but the characters end up being just like the ones in fairytale.

For example, as I read I started to make comparisons between "The Knight's Tales" characters and characters from usual fairytales. Palomon would be the handsome wonderful knight who would do anything to be with the princess he loves. Emelye would be that princess who waits for the perfect man to be with her. Arcite is the villain who wants to keep the princess away from the honorable knight. And Thesus would be the king who makes the decision of who should stay with the princess. And at the end, the knight would fight with the villain and the honorable knight would win the princesses heart. Just like in "The Kinghts's Tale:" "For now is Palomon in complete happiness/ Living in bliss, in riches and in health/ And Emelye loves him so tenderly" (3101-3103).

Because of course, a fairy tale can't end without the perfect ending..."and they lived happily ever after."