The Role Of Alison In The Wife Of Bath's Tale

The Wife of Bath, who was married five times, married all of her husbands for money. The last husband, Jenkin, was the one she truly loved, but told him about a dream that never happened. She told him that she dreamt of blood filling her bed, but the blood represented gold. This was a lie. She also told him that she was enchanted with him, and even though she was, it was for the wrong reason at that moment. In the Wife of Bath's tale, the old wife tricks the knight into marrying her by making him pledge troth to her, and does not mention marriage. Also, both women gain control of the marriages. The Wife of Bath is hit by her husband after she hits him, but after they reconciled she gets control over the marriage after she cries, and he gives her his estate and riches. The old wife gains control when she asks him what he wants. When he tells her to decide she gains control of the relationship when she chooses both beauty and fidelity. By them tricking their men and gaining control of the relationship, they seem to be

Like husbands in real life, Alison's husbands are not knights. They do not submit to her will out of love for her beauty as she expects. Physically, she beats her fifth husband into submission, crucifies her philandering fourth on the cross of jealousy, and outwits her three horny, old husbands through flattery and deceit, attacking their fidelity to extort payment for the marriage debt. Alison's marriages are battles, a state of war that continues until she wins the right to rule, after which she controls the marital assets and the stipulation of the marriage debt. She sexually abuses her old husbands, hints she wants her fourth dead, and curtails her young fifth's reading. Vae victis - woe to the conquered. Aggressively, Alison pitches them into their purgatory, realizing the right to rule in her own hell.

In the time period of the 14th century, many woman faced inequality. Women were not viewed to uphold the same quota as men. Most females were viewed as passive to males and were not able to make many demands in their relationships or make any contributions to their own survival or life. In the “Wife of Bath Tale”, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer gives an insight into the struggles of a woman. Chaucer gives a voice for women who cannot speak for themselves. He creates a tale for the Wife of Bath that includes and questions the societal views of women. Written in the words of a woman, Chaucer undermines what it means to be a female in the fourteenth century who desires independence and

The lack of literacy and the church’s tremendous power during the Middle Ages resulted in a “chain of being”; the order was established by the church and only emphasized the patriarchal society of the time. During the late fourteenth century, Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of individual stories that included “The Wife of Bath.” The last stanza of “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” culminates the Wife’s argument that the concept of “maistre” should rest in the hands of the female partner in order to balance the unequal footing created by the chain of being.

In Chaucer’s frame story The Canterbury Tales, the account of “The Wife of Bath” demonstrates a mixture of feminine

In medieval literature, the knight is held to the highest esteem among all members of the king’s court. The knight is bound to a shared code that dictates how one should act in any possible situation that may arise. While embarking on their epic journeys, knights are often put through trials that test the strength they have to uphold the Knightly Code. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale, the nameless knight disregards his duty to the Knightly Code in several instances throughout the tale. The knight in question is brought into Arthur’s court labeled with charges of rape. Posed a question by the queen the knight was tasked with supplying her the correct answer in order to save his life. The way the knight carries out his task and how he handles the situations that arise after his life is secure are reasons to question his moral character and his true loyalty to his knighthood.

  Alison of Bath as a battered wife may seem all wrong, but her fifth husband, Jankyn, did torment her and knock her down, if not out, deafening her somewhat in the process. Nevertheless, the Wife of Bath got the upper hand in this marriage as she had done in the other four and as she would probably do in the sixth, which she declared herself ready to welcome. Alison certainly ranks high among women able to gain control over their mates.

The wife of bath’s prologue is much longer than the actual story. The wife is what the medieval church saw as a wicked woman. Her prologue is important because it shows how she took control over her five husbands. The wife of bath could be considered one of the earliest feminist characters in literature.

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath Prologue, we are told the story of the wife of bath Alyson and her many marriages. The role of the woman in this time period was to follow what her husband’s rules, and to obey the men in her life since a woman was considered incapable of running her own life and making decisions. When Alyson married her first husband, she was only twelve years old by the time she married her last husband she was forty. Although it was frowned upon for a woman to remarry Alyson did not see a problem with this since she was not disobeying the bible but following a section that she believed approved of the lifestyle she has had throughout the years. When Alyson first got married she was the person that had to be taken

Justin arrived home and went into the hall. Then he saw his wife's boots. She always left them there. She always left her coat on the floor. Her things were everywhere. He hated her. He asked his wife where was she and she answered that she was in the bath. Next Justin came into the bathroom and noticed the electric heater next to the bath. So he thought that it would be a good solution of his problem. He threw the heater into the bath where was his wife...the next moment there was a big explosion. His wife was dead. She died because of the electroshock. Then Justin decided to drink a whisky and he went to the kitchen. When he came into the kitchen he saw a bottle of whisky on the table. So he took it and poured some whisky into the glass.

Didactic literature is a work of writing that has been around for many centuries. It can come in all types of forms- novels, plays, poems, etc. The main similarity that all didactic literature have in common is their message. They all aim to impact their audience with a message or moral that usually involves religion, philosophy, history, or even politics. In a way, didactic literature always tries to improve a part of society in a moral basis.

     Alison tells the tale of a knight in King Arthur’s Court who rapes a beautiful young maiden out of lust. The knight is sentenced to be decapitated. However, the queen and other ladies of the court ask Arthur to give the knight one chance to save himself, and being obedient to the wifely counsel, Arthur agrees. The knight may live, if within one year he can come back to the court and tell them what women want most in the world. Alison continues her tale, telling all of the different answers that the knight receives, such as sex, money, flattery, and even remarriage. Not thinking that any of these answers are true he continues on. Nearing the end of his journey, the knight spots a group of women dancing in the woods, but when he gets to where they were they have vanished and all that remains is an ugly old woman. The old woman ask if she can help and the knight tells of his predicament. The old hag says that she knows the answer and offers to help only if the knight pledges himself to her. Returning to the court, the knight gives his answer to the women. The knight replies that what

Analysis of Main Character in “The Wife of a Bath’s Tale”, by Chaucer. It’s a tale dealing with women and man relationship and status, also the wife of bath tried to shows that the women can go over the men and prove that with her own experience and the story she told. A short summarize of the story, a knight was caught raped a young women on the forest. They send him to the Author’s court, the king Author decided to execution him without any other solution. The queen heard about this story and tried to give him another chance by answering a question “what women want more than anything else in the world?” In addition, the knight must return with the answer with just one year. And if the answer is convincing the queen will giving

“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a story about a widow who took a pilgrimage to the town of Canterbury with an array of dynamic characters whose diverse backgrounds allowed them to share their stories with one another to make the long journey more interesting. The widow named Alisoun in the “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” told the tale of her experiences with her five past husbands and a story about a knight and a witch. She truly believed that for a woman to have a happy life she would need to gain dominion over a man; however one could assume this was programmed into her by her influential mother and her own religious doctrines. Accordingly, Alisoun argued that the woman must control everything in

The control of her fifth husband made her admit “that even if he had beaten [her] on every bone, he could soon win [her] love again.” (Chaucer 511-512)