Con-nections

I see some connection to many things. The first part of The Knight’s Tale felt to me as if I had read that before. I feel it was some resemblance to the way the Genesis is written. Even though the Genesis is not a poem and is therefore not written in verse, the phrases are short and concise, every phrase, or verse of the poem is a sentence that has its own meaning and if it is taken away from the poem it still makes sense, alone. The same principle applies to the Genesis, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (1:1 Genesis) it alone makes sense. The same as if you take “There was a duke who was called Theseus;”(Part 1 860). You get the idea.

Apart form the fact that the way it is written resembles to me the Bible, there were some contents that made me do the connection too. The word “God” is repeated various times and the driven concept is the same, as holy authority and final judge, creator, king of kings, etc… It talks about mercy, and treason, punishment, regard, even pursuit of happiness which got me thinking in Confucius and the Tao Te Ching the eternal pursuit of happiness that also reminds me of The Great Gatsby and Seize The Day. “We seek eagerly after felicity, But we go wrong very often, truly.” (Part 1 1266-1267) It is an explanation of what we do and do not do, how we do it, how it depends on each person. We go back to the same questions and may be similar answers, no matter if the text is 3 years old or 200 years old, we are still the same. Referring to the Genesis, The Knight’s Tale even refers to a serpent, “Alas, I see a serpent or a thief, That has done mischief to many a true man,” (Part 1 1325-1326) it is the same a thief, a sense of evil, just like the serpent that made Eva eat the forbidden fruit.

Evidently The Knight’s Tale has a connection to Greek mythology, Athens, the duke Theseus, the goddess and the magical powers, but ironically it talks about the God, the one and only God. For now, I have a bunch of questions, just like the universe and human kind has always had, waiting to be answered.