The Wife Of Bath 's Tale

Chaucer has written and finished a total of 24 tales, sadly he did not finish the remaining 96 tales. Although, "The Wife of Bath's Tale" including the prologue of this tale written by Geoffry Chaucer in 1400 is included in the 24 finished tales. "The Wife of Bath's Tale Prologue" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffry Chaucer clearly shows his mix of Mythology and Christianity, his dislike of the church, and how there are only two types of women unless a man fully submitted to his wife, that then his wife becomes the best of both types, this is shown in "The Wife of Bath's Tale Prologue" And "The Wife of Bath's Tale" this is show by references to the Christian God, supernatural creatures, his distaste of churchmen, and his leeriness of women.

The “Wife of Bath’s Tale” in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales consists of a prologue describing the character Wife of Bath and a tale that reflects on her personality. The “Prologue” describes her experience with her 5 husbands and her authority on marriage. Her first marriage began at the mere age of twelve and she alludes to the fact that her first husband as well as the two that followed were much older and wealthy As the Wife of Bath goes on to describe her husbands, she calls three good and two bad. The first three were old, rich, and submissive, making her the one with the power in the relationship. She teased and tortured these three to get what she wanted.

that he never went to hell (272). She clearly valued sex as the most important attribute of a husband for, “…in our bed he was so fresh and gay….Heaven knows whenever he wanted it- my belle chose-, thought he had beaten me in every bone…”(272) Even though her final husband had beaten her, because he was good in bed with her she felt she loved him the best of them all (272). Clearly, The Wife of Bath valued three things in her marriages, sex, power, and money. In her tale we find that power is an important role to women in marriage. A knight, after raping a women is spared by a queen (282) but in order to save his life, he has one year (283) to find, “What is the thing that women most desire”(282)? After searching, he finds no answer but on his way home finds an old women who promises she will save him, he must promise to do what she asks of him after however, and he agrees (285). When he and the old lady meet with the queen, he exclaimed, “A women want’s the self-sovereignty over her husband as over her lover, and master him; he must not be above her” (286). This answer is perfectly inline with The Wife of Baths views, she always wants to be more powerful than her husband. When the old lady says he must marry her, he protests but soon she offers him two choices, he can have her be old and ugly till she dies, but loyal, or she can be young and pretty and take chance that she might not remain faithful (291). He gives his answer to be that she may choose, thus giving her the

I wrote about the wife of bath. In the tale the knight raped the girl by the river. He has 12 months to find out what a girl or woman wanted in life. Or how a girl wants to be treated. The woman wanted him to go because of how he treated the girl that he raped. I n the second paragraph i will tell you more about the wife of bath.

The Canterbury Tales are an accumulation of many pilgrims’ stories as they make their journey to the site of Sir Thomas a Becket’s shrine, as he was the martyred saint of Christianity. There are many stories included in The Canterbury Tales. Of these many tales, one of them is the story of the Wife of Bath, whose real name is Alisoun. From her appearance and behavior, to her political and religious views, there is much to tell about the Wife of Bath, for her prologue and tale are quite long. The Wife of Bath is a very interesting character. In addition to Alisoun as a person, her story is fascinating as well, with a surprising and compelling end to the story. (SparkNotes Editors)

Often at times people can feel disconnected from themselves, from the world, or even friends and families; Therefore, causing tension in relationships. Which was displayed in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” when the knight searches all over the world to find out what women most desire in a man. Also in “One Amazing Thing” there are various stories from different characters that have had trouble with personal stories and how one gender or religious belief can be more dominate than the other.

The Wife of Bath 's Prologue and Tale is about female empowerment it shows strong protagonists. I believe Geoffrey Chaucer used The Wife of Bath’s Tale to advocate for feminism. Chaucer used a strong female character to expose female stereotypes. It was an oppressive time for women in male-dominated society. During the Middle Ages, Chaucer wrote from a woman’s point of view something that was not normal at that time. He set his feminist ideals through the characters of the Wife of Bath and the old woman. He used subtle methods like humor to show his ideals. During Chaucer’s time nobody was used to the idea of women being equal to men, this idea did not exist. Chaucer expressed his ideas in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale by being one of the first to understand and acknowledge a women’s struggle in society, through this tale he shows the difference between men and women and their positions of power. In the Wife of Bath’s Tale, feminism is showed by the knight recognizing and listening to his wife. Chaucer is a feminist for his time because he used humor to mask his unpopular ideas he used these characters to voice his opinions.

Are you familiar with “The Pardoner’s Tale?” What about “The Wife of Bath’s Tale?” Even though they are different, they are somewhat alike. Some of their similarities are the use of one of the “7 Deadly Sins,” they both included a moral message, and their stories relates to their character. Their differences include the use a different sin, three died from their mistakes and one learned from his, and one ended with a new life and the other concludes with multiple deaths.

The Wife of Bath is a powerful woman who has strong beliefs about marriage, a women’s place in society, and what women want. As a woman who has been married five times, she does not believe there should be a limit on marriage. She supports her claims on marriage with a lot of biblical evidence because, “In the Middle Ages, the Bible was the ultimate source of authority on all spiritual and moral matters,” (Thanassoulis 4). The Wife of Bath’s tale challenges the Medieval view of the women's estates by saying, “Not every dish and vessel’s made of gold, / Some are of wood, yet earn their master’s praise,” (The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Chaucer 751-752). The vessels made of gold are symbolic of virgins while the wooden vessels represent wives, the Wife of Bath acknowledges the importance of virgins but suggests that wives “earn their master's praise” or are equally if not more important than virgins. Her argument about virgins provokes the idea of a rearrangement of the women’s classes. Additionally, the Wife of Bath secures an overall message of women wanting power and authority in relationships, a new idea during her time, with supporting in lines like, “I’d mastered him, and out of deadlock / Secured myself the security in wedlock” (The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Chaucer

Men in the middle ages looked upon marriage as being a disadvantage because they considered wives to be gold diggers in which men would pay for their fancy lifestyle. The “Wife of Bath’s Tale,” was written around the year 1386, by Geoffrey Chaucer who tells a tale about a wife that wants sovereignty over her husbands. Book 18 of “Le Morte d’Arthur,” was written by Thomas Malory, he tells a tale about Queen Guinevere who wanted to follow the traditional role of a wife, who wanted to marry Sir Lanucelot but never could and have happiness because of the tragic that she had. Even though the two women were of the same era, they had different beliefs on the role of a woman like the wife who was a gold digger that married many husbands, the Queen

One inference that I made about the Wife of Bath is that she feels like the hag. I say this because when the knight brought her to the castle and answered the questioned the answer was “Women just want to be in charge of their husbands.” Seeing how the Wife of Bath acts this is something she would say. Also in the story how there were fairies and elves but then MEN took over. Since she has been married so many times I think she truly hates men even though she claims to be “all knowing” about them because she has been married so many times.

The Wife of Bath starts her prologue degrading the Friar and how he does not treat women well. Then she starts “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, in which she talks about the story of a young knight who sexual assaulted a young lady. The young knight was about to get executed by King Arthur when the Queen decided to help the knight out and save him if he could tell her what women truly wanted. The knight left to go on his hunt for exactly what the women wanted. He asked many women and they came up many different things each of them wanted. One day the knight ran across a foul, old lady. This old lady said she knew exactly what all women wanted and she would tell him if he promised to do whatever she pleased when the time came. The older lady told the

The wife of bath tells a very interesting and thought provoking tale. The tale centers around a knight, who commits the horrendous crime of rape in King Arthur’s court. Here, he is sentenced to death, but he is given one more chance by Arthur’s wife. If he can find out what a women wants the most in whole world he will be spared, he is given one year. The knight goes around for the year with no luck.

The Wife of Bath uses bible verses in “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue.” Further, she employs the verses as an outline of her life to find reason in God to justify her actions. Nevertheless, the purpose of the verses differs within each stanza of the poem. The Wife of Bath is a sexually promiscuous, lustful, and manipulative woman. She marries men one after the other as they get older and die. In order to combat and overthrow the speculation and criticism being thrust upon her by societal norms because of her marriages, the wife turns to specific bible passages to find reason in life and support for her actions (Article Myriad.com). When the wife is having sex quite frequently and with different men she is said to be fruitful and multiplying. According to the wife, this is what she is told to do in the bible passage, which she has misinterpreted. Ironically, The Wife of Bath is using a predominantly male dominated book to back up and support her reasons for women being equal to men (Article Myriad.com). Not only has she referred to the benefits of adultery through the bible, she has also attempted to undermine the power of men in the very same way she has attempted to prove that the genders are equal. From this, it can be interpreted that although the wife claims to be providing evidence for women being equal to men, she is actually saying that women are better than men. She misinterprets the readings of the bible and male written passages on purpose in order to suit her needs.

The investigation into whether or not Geoffrey Chaucer was ahead of his time in terms of his views on feminism has been up for debate for hundreds of years. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue is just one solitary