The Unanswerable Question
- Dalton Morrison
- Jan 17
- 1 min read
Updated: May 10
In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," in The Canterbury Tales, a knight sets out on a long journey to find out what all women want the most. He asks every woman he comes across the question, but they all answer differently. The knight was getting stressed out; everywhere he went women would answer differently. Even when two women answered the same thing, it didn't solve the problem that other women thought differently, thus it wasn't the correct answer. The knight searched far and wide for a year but still did not find the answer. What was the reason for this?
The reason was that all people think differently, especially women. They all live in different places under different conditions, which makes them all want some things more or less than others. It is also simply a matter of how the brain works: every brain is made differently and is taught to think differently. All women wanting the exact same thing at the exact same time is impossible. There’s also the fact that humans are designed by God to be different. You’ll never meet anyone in your life that is exactly identical to someone else, because it would defy the laws of reality if you did. (Also, the task was designed to be impossible so the queen would have an excuse to kill the knight)
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