Reading Notes Week 14: Part B

That ending is terrible! Southpark totally ripped an episode from the Decameron unit where the lady ate her lover's heart! In some ways, these stories have an interesting contrapasso or maybe that's the wrong word to describe it, but there is a nice twist for the mora crimes that the characters permit. The stories are both funny and tragic at the same time. I think this is achieved because it mixes in an element of surprise with humor so you never expect what is happening. And then once you start to suspect it, and your beliefs confirmed, it makes it even worse. These Decameron stories are hilarious.

Bibliography: The Decameron by Boccaccio, translated by J. M. Rigg (1903)

Lady eats Guillaume de Cabestaing's heart