Chaucer and Rape

Though subject of great debate and pain in modern days, the occurrence of rape in medieval society, though most specifically in many of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works such as "The Wife of Bath’s Tale," proves to hold very little interest in the minds of both historical inhabitants of the time as with it’s readers. Though readers of literary texts during the medieval period consisted mainly of males who would not understand both the …

…raptus," the author most have had some sort of fixation due to his earlier time when he was accused of the crime. I refuse to believe that someone’s historically background does not, even in the slightest case, have an effect on one’s being. For Chaucer, I feel that it did affect him, although maybe not in a huge way, but in a way enough that his feelings could be expressed in his writing.