The Wife Of Bath's Tale

The old woman ,again , exercises her power over the knight and gives him a choice: either he can have an old and loyal wife or he can have a beautiful spouse who can feel the temptation to look for love in other men.

In her story she used the old lady to represent her. The old lady makes a condition with this knight and they get married but he did not want to marry her. While they are married the old lady has these talks with the knight about being a respectful and accepting her as her: “No shame in poverty if the heart is gay, As seneca and all learned say./Lastly you taxed me with being old.Yet even if you never have been told by ancient books, you gentlemen engage,yourselves in honour to respect old age”(290).The knight becomes ashamed of her for all her flaws, but the old lady tells him that this should not matter to him and being a knight these virtues should be obvious to him. She gives him a choice of how their marriage will continue on: “You have two choices; which one will you try? To have me old and ugly till I die, but still a loyal, true, and humble wife that never would displease you all her life, or would you rather I were young and pretty and chance your arm what happens in a city where friends will visit you because of me, yes and in other places too maybe”(291). In this scenario she gives him two choices for the fate of their marriage. He explains to her whatever she wants to do he will submit: “And have i won the mastery? Said she, since i'm to choose and rule as i think fit? Certainly wife, he

No because since the message of the story is to let the woman make the decisions we can infer that the knight will have to learn from this and add it to his life as well.

“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 Alison 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, Alison argued that the woman must control everything in order

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales presents several interesting characters, of which the most interesting is the Wife of Bath. A stand-out character meant to generate a shocking response from the reader, the Wife of Bath is both headstrong and blunt, especially for a woman of her time. Although the Wife of Bath clearly is educated in Biblical passages due to her many references to the Bible in her tale’s prologue and tale, the basis of her argument—that women should gain total sovereignty in marriage by using sex as their weapon to gain dominance—is actually undermined by her Biblical examples and her own description of her fifth marriage.

The Wife of Bath is one of the most distinct, wild characters in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The way that Chaucer has drawn the character the Wife of Bath is very sexual, self-confident, feminist woman. Her

The Wife of Bath, one of the many characters in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, is a feminist of the fourteenth century. Chaucer, in the "General Prologue," describes her as promiscuous. The Wyf confirms this claim in the prologue to her tale, the longest in the book. An analysis of the "General Prologue" and the "Wyf's Prologue" reveals a direct relationship between the Wyf of Bathe and the characters in her tale, such as the knight, queen, and ugly woman.

The Wife of Bath's experiences with marriage influenced her idea that a happy marriage is one where the woman has power over the man. She describes her belief about marriage

Of her fifth husband, although he treated her horribly, she had much love for him. The Wife of Bath, during her relationship with the fifth husband, realized

Adultery in today’s society is more common than it was during a time when there were knights, kings, queens, and crusades because adultery was looked as a sin due to the fact that in the mid-1400s there was no law higher than the church. In the passage The Wife of Bath’s Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer characterizes the Wife of Bath as a woman who uses men for her needs and pleasure. For example, the wife explains she has many husbands but desires to lust and love other men she acknowledges. In the second passage La Morte D’ Arthur, Thomas Malory explains how people use each other for their own personal gains, such as Queen Guinevere and her second partner do, as she commit’s adultery behind her spouse’s back. Therefore, both the wife’s are guilty

In the text “You have two choices… The choices are all your own.” This time the knight has given two choices, to have an ugly but loyal wife or a beautiful but always cuckold. The knight can't pick any of those; he gave the ultimate choice to the old woman. The old woman granted all he wanted a beautiful and loyal wife.

The Wife of Bath begins the Prologue declaring, “Experience, though noon auctoritee / Were in this world, is right ynogh for me / To speke of wo that is in mariage" (GP 1-3). She had her first marriage at the age of twelve, an important key in Chaucer’s usage of age to show how it affects the amount of control one can have in a relationship. She also gives a brief explanation of why she marries these five men by saying “Blessed be God, that I have wedded fyve; / (Of whiche I ... the beste, / Bothe of here nether purs and of here cheste.)” (WP 44-46) By saying this, the Wife makes it known that throughout her marriages that money and sex have been important factors.

Out of all the interesting short stories included in the Canterbury Tales, written by the famously remembered Geoffrey Chaucer, the most extraordinary tale is The Wife of Bath's. The Wife is an older woman who has been married several times, therefore she shares the wisdom she has acquired through the years to tell an eye opening tale. Throughout the story there are various key fairy tale characteristics, which are put in place to teach a lesson and the lesson taught in not ordinary, it's a lesson that will transform your way of thinking.

In the poem The Wife of Bath, by Geoffrey Chaucer, a lustful knight commits a deplorable sin by taking the virtue of an unsuspecting maiden, later caught, the knight is given two options by the merciful queen, to discover what women truly wants or to face death. The knight chose the former option, starting his quest of understanding what a woman desire. Over the course of the poem, the knight amends himself gaining an understanding of women, as he takes on the queen’s ultimatum accepting his faux pas, rather than running away from the court, pursuing the true answer of what women yearn rather than falling prey for the petty and biased stereotypes of women. The knight also changes as he accepts giving mastery of his life and sovereignty to both

In the story the Canterbury tales the author Chaucer uses the wife of bath as an example of love and marriage when the knight wanted commit to her and help her social status. The wife had multiple marriages. She had a lot of love to give.