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The Use Of Balance In The Knight's Story

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The Knight tells one story to foreshadow and connect it to another, that is how the Knight uses balance in his story. Each part of the story is connected to the other. It circles around and completes the idea.
The Knight starts his tale with a story about the mighty Duke, Theseus, who conquers a city to win his wife, Hippolyta. The Knight uses this story to introduce the idea of marriage that will later be completed. The Knight tells Theseus’ story so simply, but he makes sure that the readers do not see it that way. He explains that there is more to the story when he says, “And were it not too long to tell again / I would have fully pictured the campaign” (27). The Knight says this so the readers know that there was more to the story than

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