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What's wrong with the Griselda story
Mar. 20th, 2007 09:44 pmBesides, that is, everything. At least no one in the Decameron approves of it entirely - but they commend Griselda herself for her 'patience,' which is the part that strikes me as the worst. I don't think that the willingness to see herself humiliated and to prepare the wedding feast for her replacement shows goodness. I think it makes her pathetic.
Griselda and Gualtieri have one of those fairy-tale love at first sight marriages. Well, I'll accept that, since it's in Boccacio, and he has people who have never seen each other dying for love. But then being so in love, if that's what he wants to call it, that she'll accept all that -?
The obvious explaination is that she wants to be Queen, but I doubt that's even in the back of the teller's mind. (And it's out of character for Dioneo to be telling it. Not enough embarassing double-entendres!)
And then she's held up as a role model!
Another problem, I think, is that the idea of 'testing' your spouse like that is extremely distasteful to me, and it's worse because she doesn't see anything wrong about it.
Griselda and Gualtieri have one of those fairy-tale love at first sight marriages. Well, I'll accept that, since it's in Boccacio, and he has people who have never seen each other dying for love. But then being so in love, if that's what he wants to call it, that she'll accept all that -?
The obvious explaination is that she wants to be Queen, but I doubt that's even in the back of the teller's mind. (And it's out of character for Dioneo to be telling it. Not enough embarassing double-entendres!)
And then she's held up as a role model!
Another problem, I think, is that the idea of 'testing' your spouse like that is extremely distasteful to me, and it's worse because she doesn't see anything wrong about it.
