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Love is well portrayed in “The Canterbury Tales” and the “Interpreter of Maladies.” In the Canterbury Tales, there is a lot of love as most of the characters usually end all their stories by wishing the rest of the group best luck which is a sign of love. We see courtly love Canterbury Tales. It is a method of showing love in a chivalrous fashion. The courtly love is centered in the Knights Tale. The knight usually ends with “God, that sixtieth height in majesties, save this entire campaigner, great and small!” This is a clear indication that there was love between the people they struggle to have the fair maiden (Bloom, 24). The young knight dresses in lovely attires, checks at his appearance, he becomes a songwriter, dances and he is determined with love issues to the extent of not being able to sleep.
The courtly love has also been satirized in various ways. In the Millers Tale, we see that courtly attachment has been changed into a mere joke. Chanticleers ends up being committed to pertelote. He ends up misinterpreting the dream and thus being tricked by the fox. We also see that sexual desire also plays a vital role in the Canterbury Tales. In all the tales the issue of physical lust comes in place and merges up with the problem of love. There is a lot of sexual rivalry in the tale as Miller’s Tale is the most concentrated one. The wife of the bath has no issue speaking about the five husbands that she has and she is proud about that.

Chaucer utilizes various dirty jokes to show lust. Palamon and Arcite are ill because of love. They all fall in love with Emily. They all want to have Emily who is a noblewoman but far from them. They even vow to do anything to win over her love. Duke Theseus comes in and raises the question of intense passion. He fails to understand why one would work if the end results are the pain. However, he also says that he has done various stupid things for the sake of love. Arcite and Palamon even love each other. They swear an oath of brotherhood. That is because they believe in romantic love more than friendship. They remain a good friend to the extent that they are willing to go to hell and come back for each other. Death is as well connected to love in various situations. Death makes people feel powerless which more or less the same to love is. The knight tales discusses the issues of love about death.
In the book Interpreter of Maladies despite not talking, there is genuine love between the couples, Mr. Kapasi and Mrs. Das. In the book, there is an issue of every character being unable to see the reality of the other person, and thus the results are at times harmful. The story has majorly focused on the two couples who romanticized each other (Lahiri, 8). Mrs. Das sees Mr. Kapasi as a father figure. Therefore, she wants him to be helping her in solving her personal and marital challenges. She is unable to convince herself that Mr. Kapasi cannot fit into the role of a father. They both suffer from loveless marriage as a result of poor communication. If there was good communication, things would be different at the end of the two books.
Work Cited
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of maladies. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000.
Bloom, Harold, Ed. The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer. InfoBase Publishing, 2008.