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Abortion is a subject that is very controversial. It is legal to have an abortion, but in some people’s opinion it is an immoral act that should not be legal. In the Middle Ages the knights has a code of chivalry to live by, and it was a moral code. The knights really did not have a legal code because they were supposed to live up to the code of chivalry. Kings also had to follow these codes if they were to be considered a good King. In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales The Knight’s Tale represents what the code of chivalry stands for, this however is completed contrasted by Malory’s Le Morte d’Artur.

I the knight’s Tale, two knights are imprisoned in a kingdom and they both fall in love with the same girl. One of them is granted release from imprisonment with the promise never to return to the kingdom again, the other manages to escape. They meet again in a field and they argue as to who should have the girl’s hand. An outside party sets up a joust in which one of the men severely wounds the other and wins. The man who wins falls off his horse and dies and with his dying breath says that he would love for the girl to be with his adversary. This is the model of chivalry and of sportsmanship, if it can be called that. According to David Benson, the author of The Knight’s

Tale as History,. Chaucer creates a classical world, which would be believable to a medieval audience. Chaucer also examines chivalry in a pre-Christian state. Chaucer shows the best of “secular knighthood� and suggests that it foreshadow Christian chivalry. This proves that Chaucer was trying to create ideal knights obeying the code of chivalry. The two knights fought for the girl instead of trying to deceive one another or the girl to be with her.

That situation is what happens in Le Morte d’Arthur. Uther Pengragon deceives the Dukes wife with the help of the wizard Merlin, which enables Uther to father...