The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffry Chaucer, are pieces of literature that contain an accumulation of a motley set of belief systems. The beliefs that appear in "The Knight's Tale", "The Wife of Baths Tale" and "The Pardoner's Tale", consist of Greek Mythology, Destiny and the Bible. In the beginning of "The Knight's Tale", the story starts with two ancient Greek legends: Theseus who killed the Minotaur, defeated the Amazons and also conquered Athens. As well as the story of Thebes with Creon, Polynices and Etocles. The Bible in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" also plays a major role in how the Wife of Bath feels that there is discrimination towards women, in that women should not have many husbands. She makes many references to the Bible, stating that Abraham, Jacob and other holy men who had more than one wife. In "The Pardoners Tale", Fortunes Wheel is very apparent, when all the thieves die by the others hand. Fortunes Wheel was believed to be destiny; whatever happens should just be accepted. All three of these belief systems are embodied into the stories in, "The Canterbury Tales".

Greek Mythology appears throughout the story of "The Knight's

3- "Fortune has given (Arcite and Palomon) us this adversity (prison)"

In The Canterbury Tales, Fortunes Wheel is evident in "The Pardoner's Tale". Fortunes Wheel was basically the same as destiny, in that no one had "free will". The Pardoner revels a story of three men who encounter an old man who directs them to an oak tree at the end of the lane an tells them that he "had last seen death there." The men rush to the oak to fin eight bushels of gold. They decide to keep the treasure for themselves, but greed over comes them. One of the men leaves, to get drinks, while the other two stay and keep watch. While the one is gone, he starts to think that he could have all the treasure to himself if he killed the other two, so he bough some poison and put it in two of the drinks. Meanwhile, the other two were devising a plan to kill the one that was getting the drinks. They were going to slay him when he returned so that they could keep the money for themselves. When the one returned he was slew by the other two, but when the two drank, the poison was still in the drinks, therefore they died as well. All three of the men died because they were greedy, which is one of the deadly sins, they killed themselves through their own trickery. This tale shows how Fortunes Wheel plays a roll in every day life.

1- "My lord (Theseus) to whom Fortune has given victory"

People of that era believed that their lives were planned out and that Fortunes Wheel took place in their consciousness. Usually, people in the 21 century refer to "Lad

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