The Roles Of Women In Parlement Of Foules By Geoffrey Chaucer

Today, women are treated with a respect and love that past generations would have dreamed about. Simple privileges like being allowed to have a job and get an education are taken so for granted, because fortunately it is all this generation has known. Women have always been strong capable beings that are fit to do a job that is typically given to a man, and probably with more efficiency. Figuratively in the poem Parlement of Foules by Geoffrey Chaucer and quite literally in the Speech to the Troops at Tilbury by Queen Elizabeth, women hold a powerful role in the writing and/or execution of these works through leadership roles and also through sexuality. Women are wonderful creatures and are capable of incredible things, yet the fact that a†¦show more content†¦In this poem, the way Chaucer writes about relationships and specifically a woman’s role in the relationship is a mindset and a step in women’s rights that did not become popular and accepted for hundreds of years later. In Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, the queen’s words are oozing with power and authority. The queen begins her speech addressing the crowd as â€Å"My loving people† (Queen Elizabeth). This immediately establishes her power and authority before even beginning to deliver her speech. Her place on the throne was her birthright, yet, because she is a woman, she is doubted of her abilities to rule a kingdom. Through giving this speech, Queen Elizabeth aims to prove that she intends to do all in her power to work with the troops and protect their land. Through her mighty words, she claims her kingdom and she claims the respect that she rightfully deserves. She plays on the assumption that women are weak and powerless, â€Å"I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king† (Queen Elizabeth). During the renaissance era, the average woman did not have essentially any power, much like the medieval era. This is a woman†™s place in the renaissance period as told by the writer Suzanne Hull: â€Å"When England was ruled for half a century by Queens but women had almost no legal power; When marriage, a women’s main vocation, cost them their personal property rights; when the ideal women wasShow MoreRelatedWho Was Geoffrey Chaucer?888 Words   |  4 PagesWho was Geoffrey Chaucer? One of the most unique poets of during the Middle Ages was Geoffrey Chaucer. He was born in London sometime between 1340 and 1344. His parents were John Chaucer and Agnes Copton. John Chaucer was an affluent wine merchant and deputy to the king’s butler. Geoffrey held several opportunities early in his life serving as a noblewoman’s page, a courtier, a diplomat, a civil servant, and a collector of scrap metal. He was given theses oppurtunities because of who his father was