Wife of Bath Tale, Shakuntala, and Tale of Genji

Wife of Bath Tale, Shakuntala, and Tale of Genji

The tales of Wife of the bath, Shakuntala, and Tale of Genji are a classic. The plots that were used in the three tales are still being used today. An event occurs that prevents people in love to end yup together. Another event occurs that brings them together. The three tales have a variety of themes, but one thing that stands out is the relationship between men and women. The tales reveal to the audience the different ways men and women view each other. Men have lust, love, and romance towards women.

The Wife of Bath’s tale brings about a different idea on the relationship between men and women. It brings about the theme of power. Even though the take begins with sexual assault in women, which in this case does not depict a positive relationship, the rest of the tale illustrates a world that is full women governance. This is the world in which women desire to rule over their husbands, lovers, and men in general. The tale ends with the beautiful, loathly wife granting power back to the husband even though he willingly yields power to her. This brought about questions on what women want.

Love is a realistic feature between men and women and is quite evident in the tale of Shakuntala. We get to meet King Dushyanta who is on a hunt where he gets himself in the middle of three women one of the Shakuntala. He immediately falls in love with her. The mutual feeling goes to the next step of romance. She gets to daydream something that gets her cursed by the Sage. There is a theme of rejection between men and women in the tales. As Shankuntala was daydreaming about Dushyanta, the Sage felt rejected, and he ended up cursing her. After the curse from Sage, Shakuntala’s lover forgets her, and she must make her do her best to make him remember her. She is rejected by the palace and her family.

The Tale of Genji depicts the romantic relationship between men and women. The romantic relationship provides the audience with the insight that men and women are compatible and cannot live without each other. One such situation is when Genji is pursuing a woman. From the tale of Genji, we find the character Genji spending much of his time writing poems to ladies. Those ladies do not have any interest in him. However, the tale brings about the plot of Evanescence. This is shown with the fact that the men in the tale of Genii appreciate beauty to some point in Japanese referred to as Miyabi. The love gets distracted by the comprehension of the transience of all things. Genji and Murasaki were on the verge of taking the vows but did not go on with it. As the for the third and fourth chapters, I get myself more involved in the story as we get to see that young woman who is taken advantage of by a young prince. She is pronounced dead of suicide, but she hides in a convent to keep away from men who obsess over her.

When you compare the three tales, I see how the Tale of Genji is astoundingly realistic for something that was written over 1000 years ago. In the Tale of Genji, we get to go through a series of men and women distressing about how to avoid each other and meet each other, wrote and send each other poems; this is particularly with Genji, and the communication in images that was mainly done in Japanese. Genji is an arrogant spoilt man who gets get praised by women for being charismatic and handsome. The concepts of Lust and love painted in the Tale of Genji are seen in Chapter 2 when Genji and his friends talk at length about their past relationships with women. This is the most realistic relationship we can have that brings out the true relationship between men and women. The opposite sex will always gather once in a while to talk about their past relationships.

From the above tales, we have seen different features that bring about the relationship between men and women. From lust, love, romance, power and greed distinctly gave us the picture of how did not only the people of fourteenth-century lived but also the twenty-first century. Men will have a lust for women thinking its love, but end up giving up when they get to know the true colors of the ladies. Romance is a common feature among people who have an attraction. Power is something that women want, but men do not easily grant it. But in the current century, the stones are turning. The tales, although, being from a thousand years back, the themes on the relationship between men and women is realistic.