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No story in The Canterbury Tales is more alike as the Franklin's tale and the Wife of Bath's tale, but on a person level they are extremely different. Yet they are both personally alike in some ways, and their stories do have some diversity.
The Franklin's tale and the Wife of Bath's tale are considered folk tales but it can be said that they are courtly romances, yet it is a stretch. Each tale has some sort of magician, or a supernatural person if you must, who will solve the protagonists conflict for a fee. In the Franklin's tale it's the wizard who moves all the stones from the coast of the country, and in the Wife of Bath's tale there is a woman who solves the final conflict by making herself beautiful and loyal. Everyone in both stories are understanding and respectful, the knight in the Franklin's tale and the Queen in the Wife of Bath's tale. In each story, both protagonists, the wife in the Franklin's tale and the knight in the Wife of Bath's tale, swear upon something......

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