Decameron Day 2 and Day 3

In answering question 2 about the tale that concerned the wild woman, we have heard actually accounts about this happening and how people adapt to their environment and what is around them affects how they act. The woman in the story after losing her kids in a sense replaces them with young wild animals who had lost their mother. As she kept living with the animals she became more and more like them. She was viewed as being "so tan, thin, and shaggy" similar to that of the roebucks that she was taking care of. She herself had developed animal like feelings, like when she protects the roebucks from the dogs. This not being natural though, when she is found by other they and she as well were shocked at the sight of her and what she was doing. It was as if her humanity was no longer there, it was all animal instincts. After traumatic experiences like losing your whole family and being left alone I think that greatly affected her humanity. She had a void in her life and she filled it with the next best thing which was the young roebucks. Humanity is viewed as something that is fragile here and that it can be lost to us.

Talking about the mute woman and man, I thought in concern with the mute man that he did that to gain advantage and it kid of back fired on him as he didn't find it so appealing after a while to be with all those women. The mute woman didn't choose to be mute, no one could understand her so she might as well not speak. The man had made a choice about it. The use of making the characters mute shows more of their actions and what they would do. Being mute for the woman showed that she had no choice and when under the influence even though she talked of only giving her virginity to her husband, when she felt it for the first time, had her first taste she gave into it with no hesitation. She was easily controlled by the men, just being passed over from on to the other, to me she was a bit slutty (I don't know if we can say that on our blogs, i couldn't come up with another word). She then lied about what really happened on her adventures and made the king believe she was a virgin when she clearly wasn't. The man who went and pretended to be mute so he could get into the convent and be viewed as harmless. That could be compared to politicians who only tell you what you want to hear and are viewed harmless. With gender roles, it is seen in the tale that the woman is mostly quiet and the men are the ones that talk and do all the planning. They are the ones that take control of the woman. In the tale of the mute man though there was a lot of talk from the woman and on purpose the man choose not to talk as part of his plan.