Story Planning: Week 12, The Unknown Bride

The Unknown Bride
  • What happened to all the fairies? Why aren't they still around? 
  • Could be an interesting story if the woman was a fairy, and thats why she was able to change her image.
  • Why did all of these women begged for this knight's life is he had disrespected a woman? If this was a serious enough thing to be killed over, why were they all okay with it?
  • Finding out what women wish for is an impossible task, but I am assuming the Queen knows that
  • "We women cannot conceal things"? Gross
  • What happened to the twenty other women dancing in the field?
  • Wow this knight is a jerk. She literally gave him the answer that would save his life, and e promised he would do what she asked, but now he's backing out
  • Of course she was actually beautiful. Even though he was really mean to her, he changed his mind at the last minute and got a reward for it.
  • Story idea: write from the old woman's perspective, but when she changes into a beautiful woman, she leaves him because he is the worst. 
  • Or: when he rejects her so harshly the first time, she turns into a beautiful woman and he tries to say he changed his mind, but she has already seen his true nature and refused to marry him and accept his apology
  • I think I could use a picture of Queen Guinevere, because she is the one that gave the knight his journey to discover what women really want. She was instrumental in the story of the wedding and the reason the knight approached the old woman in the first place
Image result for queen guinevere
Bibliography: The Unknown Bride from The Chaucer Story Book by Eva March Tappan link to online reading

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  1. Hi Caroline! I didn't see the research part of this planning post, so make sure you do some research too before you write the story next time (doing research is really the key part of the planning post). There is a very useful article at Wikipedia about this part of the Canterbury Tales, and it leads to many other useful articles: Wife of Bath's Tale.

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