Compare And Contrast The Wife Of Bath's Tale And The Canterbury Tales

“In the new dream the dragon-like thing was between them, and somehow the mother managed to get the girl away. When her daughter finished telling the story, there was a bizarre look on the mother's face. As soon as she asked what was wrong, the mother explained. Those were not dreams. How’s that for spirits?”

Throughout Medieval literature, the motif of dreams pops up relatively frequently, and as a central part of the story. In The Canterbury Tales, specifically “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” Chauntecleer experiences a prophetic dream, warning him of the fox that will eventually try to attack him. In Malory’s Morte Darthur, King Arthur also sees two prophetic dreams the night before his battle with his illegitimate son Mordred. These illusions of the mind persuade Arthur enough to call for a treatise the following day, which ends up backfiring and leading to his demise. Specifically in the first of the two dreams, allusions and symbolic imagery create the looming sense of urgency for Arthur to take action in order to prevent what ends up being the inevitable.

“In the dream, the boy had already opened the first door and his hand was on the second door and any minute now, he was sure of it, he was going to see God. Only something always goes wrong. The doorknob fell off. Or the door got stuck. Or his shoelace came untied and he had to bend over and tie it.

This story has a lot of action which interested me in reading it. More and more kept happening as it was fast-paced and the characters were aiming to survive. When out of nowhere came, “a frightened cry came from the room across the passage where the children slept” (DuMaurier 3). Not very long into the problem, the dilemma is already able to be seen by the reader. Although the characters do not think much of it, Nat discovers the bird trying to get into the house which his wife thinks is nothing.

A dream of life doesn’t always result in living your dream. “Of Mice and Men’ is a novella

Taken from looks to manners to her talents, when Chanticleer dreamed of the fox that was going to one day carry him away, he goes to his wife Pertelote in the middle of the night and tells her the dream and kinda just asks her to interpret the meaning of it for him. She woke up angrily, refused to have any part of it. She called Chanticleer crazy. But neither of them worried the dream and later on when that day approached she wasn't ready. Chanticleer was already dead and Pertelote was mourning because she simply did not heed the words she began burning herself and

After he made a trip to a town, he visited a woman who interpreted dreams. The woman scared the boy as she started to pray. To him it sounded like a gypsy prayer he had experience with them before.

The Canterbury Tales, begun in 1387 by Geoffrey Chaucer, are written in heroic couplets iambic pentameters, and consist of a series of twenty-four linked tales told by a group of superbly characterized pilgrims ranging from Knight to Plowman. The characters meet at an Inn, in London, before journeying to the shrine of St Thomas a Becket at Canterbury. The Wife of Bath is one of these characters. She bases both her tale and her prologue on marriage and brings humor and intrigue to the tales, as she is lively and very often crudely spoken. Her role as a dominant female contrasts greatly with the others in the tales, like the prim and proper Prioress represents the

The Canterbury Tales is a poem written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1392. In this poem each character tells four stories, two on the way there and two on the way home, to provide entertainment for the people on the pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. One part of Chaucer’s tales that truly stands out is the character prologue where he introduces all of the characters on the pilgrimage and conveys the narrator’s opinions of them using satire and other literary devices. Of characters that Chaucer’s narrator describes, two are the Parson and the Friar. Both of the characters share similarities in their social status and job position however greatly contrast in morals and character. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses contrasting characteristics to convey an idea that teaches that power does not always lead to corruption.

The contrast of the two stories, The Knight’s tale, and the Wife of Bath’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chauser, is by the chivalric romances, which have the elements of, based from our previous discussion, wise and just leader, an unattainable woman, a monster / dragon / mythological creature, involvement of destiny, fate, chance, and god, and many more elements that were discussed. The Wife of bath’s tale is a chivalric romance because, first it has the element of a wise and just leader, like the queen, because a queen can also lead a country, just like the Queens of England, Victoria, Mary and the Elizabeths, but the society on medieval times look into women just as a product to be used, because this was stated in the first few parts of the story,

After refusing to have sex with the ghost woman, he dies. She then moves on to the friend that Dong was drinking with. He also begins to waste away. One night, in hopes of freeing himself of the ghost, he lights incense. This was successful in killing the ghost and a fox is found in the spot she previously inhabited. Throughout the entire ghost story, the fox spirit wants nothing more than to kill the men she sleeps with. She kills these men in a very cold and calculated manner, by having them wither away into nothing, yet still demanding sex from them. When they refuse, she kills them just as she did with Dong. This shows just how malice and violent she can be in order to obtain her goal. Similarly, in the European story “The Old Nurse’s Story”, there are several ghosts including a little girl and a grown man. The story begins with a nurse maid named Hester, and a little girl named Rosamond living in Furnivall Manor House. One day Rosamond goes missing, and is discovered outside on the snow covered ground, cold and nearly dead. The next morning, Hester asks her why she went outside, and she responds that a little girl beckoned to her. Throughout the story the little girl continually beckons

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem The Canterbury Tales a young Chaucer tells of the people he meets on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett in Canterbury. One of the most vivacious characters on the pilgrimage is The Wife of Bath. Both the Wife of Bath’s prologue and tale share a common theme of a woman’s control in a relationship with a man. The Wife of Bath and the old hag in her tale share a similar perspective on what women want most in life. In the prologue and tale the reader is exposed to the idea that what women most desire in life is to have control over their husbands and lovers. This tale and its prologue are linked through the way that Dame Alice, the Wife of Bath, fashions the old hag in her tale after herself.

the Wife of Bath says that "thus the apostle Paul has told it me, and bade

Through the mother, we see that dreaming may lead to a painful disappointment. The mother has an unrealistic image of her and her future husband as an idyllic, respectable and happy couple, which is not true in reality. “… avoiding the riotous amusements being beneath the dignity of so dignified couple”. She is trying to make an image of herself as an intelligent, domestic and interesting woman, which shows

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is an allegory that uses animals with human characteristics in order to portray the moral of the story. The story centers on a rooster named Chanticleer, who possesses many human qualities, such as speaking, singing, and the ability to dream. Partlet, a hen, is described as “polite, discreet, debonair, and companionable” (153). These are characteristics not typically associated with animals, which strengthens the message that the animals are representative of humans. Furthermore, Chanticleer and the other animals display human emotions, such as Chanticleer’s fear of his dream, Partlet’s disgust of Chanticleer’s fear, and the love that Chanticleer and Partlet feel for one another. Furthermore, the fox, Sir Russell, also