Timed Writing
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s epic poem “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and Giovanni Boccaccio’s “Federigo’s Falcon” illustrate sacrifice as acts as both selfishness and selflessness. Boccaccio depicts selfishness in a way to make the act obvious to the reader. Chaucer depicts sacrifice as an unwilling act for selfish people. This is shown through a Knight taking advantage of a virgin maiden, his power and title result into selfish actions. Sacrifice only helps the people receiving the action. In Chaucer’s story a “lusty liver”(Chaucer 139) Knight is forced to sacrifice his power in order to make a relationship work with someone “old, and so abominably plain”(Chaucer 146). Chaucer’s language in the story depicts women as the one that holds
