8.8 Passion is celebrated at the end of this story, almost in a comical way. Both of the people in the couples end up having relations with each other’s husband/wife. This is extremely comical in nature, as everyone in the relationships has cheated on each other. At the end they decide that they should embrace their fiery passions by being able to express love to each other. The story ends with funny line saying that from that day on both the wives had two husbands, and the husbands both had two wives. The couples find out about their infidelity, and just decide that they should just live all together, continuing their combined love.
7.3 Desire, and lust within it, drives all the main characters actions during this story. Everything that he does through the story is only to achieve his desire of being with a woman who was married. He goes as far as to befriend the father just to ask to be the godchild of the wife’s unborn child. After he gains the trust of the husband, he furthers achieves his desire of becoming a friar just so he could get close with the wife and force his love onto her.
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