1. story 3.3: How does the maiden communicate with the man she desires? What can be said about the friar? Explain and use examples from the text.
2. story 3.6: How does Ricciardo play to Catella's emotions to trick her into meeting him at the baths? How do you feel about the way he keeps her from revealing what happened?
3. story 3.9: In beginning Beltramo didn't want anything to do with Giletta. How does his love for her in the end define how women were viewed? How does this compare to other strained relationships in the Decameron?
4. story 4.3: In this story we see the twisted outcome of love gone wrong. How does this relate to other stories we've read and how do you personally feel about it?
5. story 4.9: As the preface stated it was the king who happened to be telling this particular tale, what can be interpreted about him from what we have read here? How does he seem to feel about treachery such as this?
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1. The maiden communicates with the man she desires by giving him signs by telling the friar that he pretty much stalks her but the man knows really that she has a thing for him and makes his moves to her. The friar comes off as a nice guy who is just doing his job but the maiden makes him look clueless of what is happening because she is feeding him lies. In the context she tells him that the man came by her house climbed the tree and tried to go through the window when her husband went away.
ReplyDelete2. Ricaciardo plays with Catella's emotions by feeding her a bunch of lies about her lover. He comes off to me as a pervert. He pretty much raped her even though she thought she was making love to her husband but it was really Ricaciardo.
4. Love gone wrong can relate to Tristan and Yseut it wasn't suppose to happen but they feel in love with each other and ruin the kingdom and this story people were betrayed and it ruin love with the three lovers.