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Love is something powerful that everyone fights for but only the ones who believe in standing up for what they want are the ones who are going to achieve what they are looking for. The Chaucers Canterbury Tale from the 1400s is about a knight named Palamon who falls in love with the queens sister Emily and he tries to fight for her love. In the movies The Knights Tale its about a knight who seeks to fight another knight to show that he is fighting for love. These two tales connect because they both have knights who are trying to fight for who they love and they are standing up for what they believe in. Both versions of a knights tale show that they stand up for what they believe in and who they truly love.

The knights tale that was brought up many years ago shows how standing up for what you believe in. It tells a story about two rich young knights fought for Creon, one of them named Palamon and the other Arcite. These two knights were locked up in a high tower in Athens. While Palamon was locked up he woke up one mourning and saw the queens sister Emily. Palamon thought she was so beautiful and he needed to be free so that she could be his wife. In the movie it also shows that William who is like Palamon stands up and fights for the girl that he wants to be with. In both the movies and story they tell about who they have to fight with to get through and overcome the battle. These both end up having the person they want to be with and having them become there wife. When people read about and watch the movie they can see that both the movie and story from long ago showed that both men stood up for what they believed in having.

Both types of a knights tale show how both guys were fighting and not backing down. In the story it tells that Palamon was fighting for his king Creon who had gotten defeated. When his king died he was locked up and while he was in there he knew he wanted to get out and be able to find something that he could fight for. When he saw the queens sister Emily he knew that she was the one he wanted. When he got freed he found out that Emily was the sister of queen who was married to Duke. In the movie William was not the knight people thought he was. He had fought through other knights in the battles. When Jocelyn saw that he was defeating the other knights she started to like William. When sir Adhemar fought William they both were falling in love with Jocelyn. She came to the conclusion that she wanted to be with William.

In a knights tale it shows that when they stood up for what they wanted they got it in the end. It also shows that the knights went through so much just to get one thing out of it which was love. They even showed that they didnt believe in themselves at first until they saw that when they stood up for what they wanted they achieved in what they wanted in the first place. Even if youre at the bottom of the list and dont believe in yourself at first when you find someone that is worth standing up for and also fighting for its all going to be worth it in the end.

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