The Wife Of Bath's Tale

The tale I choose is The Wife of Bath's Tale. Why my choice was this one is because it is teaching you the meaning of what women want and how to treat one. There was a knight and his wife who was very ugly but she was faithful and good to him. The knight has never had a ugly wife before and he was ashamed of it. The knight had told his wife that he is ashamed but she didn't take it personal. The wife had made him a deal either he can have her faithful and good to him or either she can turn young and fair but unfaithful. His response to his deal was he was silence but said he would trust what she decides what to do. After that his wife chooses what is best and she turned into a beautiful and good women to him. Now they both live happily ever

She had no shame in her actions and she did not apologize or excuse herself. She used her womanish wiles to get where she needed to go and get what she wanted, she was not a damsel in distress or a silent back-ground character. She essentially lived like a man, she did nothing wrong, she allowed men to marry her and she inherited their fortunes when they died. She did not murder them, or cheat on them, she simply was their wife who had the great fortune of marrying rich and her husband’s dying young.

A bold and "worthy woman" is the Wife of Bath who considers herself the expert in marriage. Considering that she has been married more than once, her technique for maintaining the marriage has been successful. As long as she has full control, she is completely satisfied. Believing that this is the only way her marriage will be happy, she gains control over her husband. The Wife of Bath's belief that a good marriage is one in which the wife has power over the husband; a trait that she describes in her prologue and clarifies the point she made in The Wife of Bath's Tale.

"Let the rest of us use our gifts as best as we can," said the Wife of Bath. By that being said her gift is her sexual powers, which she uses to control her husbands. She believes that women should be in control of the relationship. She had been married to five different men, she claims to be an expert on marriage. She is a very pretty, and wise lady. Who most of the time gets her way. She tells her prologue and her tale to the pilgrims to get her point across, that she is an expert on marriage and knows what women truly desire.

In “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue,” the Wife proclaims that she is an authority on marriage because of her past personal experiences. She uses her sexuality as a tool used to dominate her past husbands into getting money, land, and her sexual desires. During the time where the story has taken place, men had control over women within marriage, work, and society overall. So the idea of having power over men was seen as liberating for women, especially for the Wife of Bath. For her first three husbands, they were described as “good” because they were rich and old, vulnerable for her to control.

The night starts off the story by raping a virgin girl.The punishment by the queen and being judged by the queen was an unfair trial because she was a woman and the knight raped a women.The Hag told the knight that women most “desire most is society over husband and lover,desire upper hand of all time” she wanted to marry the old Hag that was her first request.The Knight is hidden away like an owl,no joy no feast did a private wedding.The knight was so ashamed to have the hag as a wife, but he owed her because she saved his life.

In The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, the wife of Bath begins a prologue before telling her tale. In the prologue, it firstly shows the argument of the wife. She illustrates that she has already had five husbands in her life and she enjoys her marital experiences. She believes in the experiences of hers instead of authority which is given by the church. She thinks that her experiences are more worthy and sufficient to help her to dispose some troubles within a marriage.

If you were trying to convince a group of people to accept an idea you knew they might oppose, how would you go about it? Furthermore, what if you knew that some members of your audience were more educated than you? What if you thought it was possible that your audience might give your words less credence simply because of who you are? This the situation in the Wife of Bath’s, when she begins to tell her tale. Hers is an exemplum, or a story that serves to communicate or support an idea. The problem is that the ideas she's trying to communicate, particularly those about women and marriage, would have been fairly controversial in 14th-century England.

Throughout the course of the poem “The Wife Of Bath’s Prologue”, the Wife of Bath defies traditional gender roles. She gets what she wants by tricking and coercing men instead of going along with what men expect of women. The Wife of Bath is not weak or submissive. She is mentally

The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer. He was known as the “Father of English literature” and one of the greatest English poets. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London between 1340-1440 to John Chaucer and Agnes Copton (Academy of American Poets 1). The Canterbury Tales plays a huge role in courtly love and sexual desire. Courtly love is a highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman. Courtly love is satirized in many of the tales that does not take place among the nobility. Sexual Desire is a motivational state or interest in “sexual objects or activities, or as a wish, need, or drive to seek out sexual objects or to engage in sexual activities”. The Wife of Bath’s Tale is very frank

The Wife of Bath, one of Chaucer’s essential parts of his most prominent works, Canterbury Tales, is important for both its prevailing theme and character growth. During the time these tales were written, England was going through a large political and social change. Throughout this tale, Chaucer reversed the standard value of leadership and supremacy. We would expect King Arthur to be the one who serves as justice and to determine the punishment of the knight, but it is the queen and ladies of the court. This tale is told to show what most women wish for. It tells us of most women’s desire to have authority over men. The aged, unappealing lady in this tale, representing the Wife of Bath, is a very envious, forceful, headstrong woman. She may

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to complete our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.” These famous words from Emerson originated from his well-known poem titled “The Poet.” The poet can best explain the qualities and magnificence of our nature.

She was furious, because Jankyn was reading a book aloud about the five wicked wives in history. She ripped a few pages from the book and punched him, causing Jankyn to strike her on the head; the Wife hit him back. Jankyn was one of the difficult husbands to dominate and would often beat on her, but she and Jankyn finally came to an agreement. Jankyn handed over all of his land to her, and she was kind to him. Jankyn was a tough cookie to break, which made her want him more. Her main goal in life was to have power and control. The Wife feels that she can speak about power because of her experiences with her five

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. . [and] in both cases the character's lives are at stake because of something they have done” (website 3). However, the Wife of Bath’s tale deviates from its source material in that the knight from the Wife of Bath’s tale “gets into his predicament by raping a young maiden. In "Dame Ragnell," King Arthur is accused of giving Sir Gawain land that belongs to someone else, Gromer Somer Joure” (website 3). Chaucer chooses to change the crime that is described in the story because the crime of rape aligns more with the feminist theme of his tale than the confusion over property rights does because rape is a violation of a woman’s sovereignty over herself. The other reason that this section of the story supports the Wife of Bath’s feminist message is because of the nature of the task that Queen Guinevere gives the knight, which is actually derived from the legend of “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle”. The Wife of Bath’s tale and the Arthurian legend from which the tale is derived have “crimes [that] are completely different, yet they still warrant similar