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Thus, the notion of ruler ship in marriage is actually an orchestrated ideological shift in the hands of Chaucer the writer, as notions of marriage and change from the point-of-view of the miller, the Wife of Bath, to the Franklin.

Even in the more singular voice of Marlowe, the poet acts an intrusive rather an impartial narrator of the tale of "Hero and Leander," as he utilizes a number of narrative devices to achieve a distancing from his characters and their actions: "I could tell ye / How smooth his [Leander's] breast was, and how white his belly, / and whose immortal fingers did imprint/That heavenly path with many a curious dint, / That runs along his back, but my rude pen / Can hardly blazon forth the loves of men, / Much less of powerful gods: let it suffice / That my slack muse sings of Leander's eyes,/Those orient cheeks and lips, exceeding his/That leapt into the water for a kiss / of his own shadow, and despising many, / Died ere he could enjoy the love of any." (I, lines 65-76).

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Marlowe the poet tells the reader that the beauty of the subject is indescribable by his poor verbal art or his "slack muse," than goes about describing this beauty with great verbal pyrotechnics with a "rude pen" -- furthermore, he speaks of a mythological character who no one has 'really' laid eyes upon.

Chaucer's ideology seems to be to create a more equitable and functional sense of a realistic marriage through the mythical themes in a tale of courtly love and impossible quests. Marlowe deploys mythical tales and allusions, and metaphorical connotations of classical mythology to create an idealized form of pure love, as opposed to arranged marriages. But both authors give new connotations to the ideal of marital romance and use past myth to create new truths for their contemporary communities -- the 'real' they create is, through the extremity of the quests pursued by the characters, is given an added and almost ritualistic intensity. By swimming the Hellespont or moving rocks, romance and marital loyalty is given the status of an old myth, even while it reinforces the.....

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