The Griselda's Clerk Tale

The story of Griselda in the Clerk’s tale by Geoffrey Chaucer narrates the life of a young humble woman whose husband tests her devotion and obedience with tremendously obstacles. This clerk’s tale is a very intense and remarkable story, where Griselda had to demonstrate her devotion and obedience to his noble husband. Griselda knew excitly how to follow the ruled stated in the Component Books. These books stated rules that women had to follow as part of they routines. The rules laid out are "how to be pious, faithful, silent, and subservient, and household duties." Griselda was raised with the belief that woman had to accept and obey husband’s will under any circumstance. Walter, Griselda’s husband, made her believe that he killed both of his children, and he also dismissed her, he did all of these just to test her wifely virtue of obedience and faithfulness. In this story, Chaucer had as the ideal wife like a woman who can overcome any obstacles. Despite the situation Griselda had lived with his husband Walter, deeply Walter felt sorrow and ashamed of the situations that he’s making Griselda goes through. As the Clerk states “The Constance of hys wyf, he caste adoun/His eyen two, and wondreth that she may/ In pacience suffer al this array;/and forth he goth witth drery contenance, /but to his herte it was fil greet plesance.”(Chaucer, 108, lines 667-72). In his interior, he knew what’s he was doing was terrifically inhuman. At some point, Walter acted kind of obsessive with Griselda’s loyalty. At the same time, he felt happy because Griselda showed him her loyalty and obedience. Griselda behaved as one of the most grandiose wives, as the most amazing of all loving and dutiful wives. In the end, Walter stood up as a man, and overcome his obsession to prove Griselda’s worth.