“Men fall in love with their eyes and women fall in love with their ears.” This quote can summarize all of the Canterbury Tales if one was to replace the word love with lust. Love is not defined by the emotional sense of the word but in the sexual desire of two people. In all of the stories not one person can be defined as in love in the modern sense, because there is no …showed first 75 words of 555 total…

…showed last 75 words of 555 total…nothing we can do can count as sin.” (Chaucer page 390) The couples never emotionally loved each other because as soon as a woman was promised an idea of emotional love she cheated on her husband and a man only married a woman because he wanted to have sex with a young, beautiful, virgin. So these tales just further prove that “men fall in love with their eyes and women fall in love with their ears.”