The Comportment Texts

The women are an important part of the family, however I consider the rules in the Comportment text are not fair because everything should be equal when it talks about men or women. One of the part that called my attention reading the comportment text was “Le Ménagier de Paris (c. 1385) it states “written by an aging husband to his fifteen year old wife. He stresses obedience and chastity and offers explicit instructions on running a household, including an extensive cookbook”.(comportment text, p2), this called my attention because this husband was talking about obedience and chastity to his wife, a woman who was only 15 years old and who could be his daughter. I think the rule in this texts are impossible to uphold because the women were treated as servants who did not have any right, and they were only slaves who had to do everything their husband said. An example of this is in one of my post “The Clerk’s Tale”, I talk about the story of Griselda a woman who was treated as a servant by her husband. She could not do any important decision not even about her own children because the only thing she could do was to obey and everything her husband said. Thanks God, the society today is very different the men are valuing more their wives and women are having the same opportunities as men for example they can go to school, work and make important decisions. Unfortunately, there are some countries that women are still treated as servant some of them are in the Middle East, where women have to cover their faces when they are going to the street.