THE COMPARISON'S TALE

From what I read, I found that Samson in The Monk's tail was very similar to the style of the Cook's apprentice because they were both womanizers in a way. Samson was a polygamist, this may be considered a womanizer because of the many women these men are involved with, but have a sense of actually being a couple. While the apprentice was just a womanizer for his own pleasure, one is still able to make some relation between these characters because it shows that Chaucer is able to make relations between characters by using vastly different types of controlling women, in this case. I also feel another valid comparison would be Samson with the knight from the Wife of Bath tale. There is a comparison here because it shows that men are still able to take advice from women even when other people would view it as losing pride. Things could turn for better, as in the case for the Knight and having his wife go from Old and ugly to young and pretty, or for the worse, as with the case of Samson. Direct comparisons may be hard to find with these tales but Chaucer did a splendid job of making the reader analyze the readings to find well backed comparisons.