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Oppression Of Women In The Knight's Tale

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I will discuss in this paper the Injustice and oppression of women in Geoffrey Chaucer story, The Knight 's Tale, which shown in the beginning of the story, when Duke Theseus decided to constrict queen Hippolyta city , and after he finished from the city and became part of his kingdom, he taked the queen and her sister Emily like a reward. without showed in the story they wanted to go with the Duke Theseus or not. After Duke Theseus control his wife kingdom" the kingdom of women ", Queen Hippolyta disappeared in the story, and her role in the story became followed to the Duke, which mean the role of happiness and glory which the Duke achieved in his life the Queen did not have any impact on it. so that the story started to make a women as a

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