The Wife Of Bath's Tale

In Chaucer’s novel The Canterbury Tales each individual tale has a well suited character to tell the tale. Meaning that based on what is learned in the general prolog about each character, it is easy to draw connections between the story teller, and their story. The Wife of Bath’s Tale is told by Dame Alison. She is not only a seamstress but also a very experienced wife. The Wife of Bath’s tale is extremely fitting for Dame Alison to tell because the moral of the tale, as well as Dame Alison’s own morals are the same. They ultimately draw the conclusions that all women really want is power over men in their relationships.

In the Middle Ages, the roles of women became less restricted and confined and women became more opinionated and vocal. Sir Gawain and The Green Knight presents Lady Bertilak, the wife of Sir Bertilak, as a woman who seems to possess some supernatural powers who seduces Sir Gawain, and Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale, present women who are determined to have power and gain sovereignty over the men in their lives. The female characters are very openly sensual and honest about their wants and desires. It is true that it is Morgan the Fay who is pulling the strings in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; nevertheless the Gawain poet still gives her a role that empowers her. Alison in The Wife if Bath Prologue represents the

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.

Arthurian literature in and of itself is full of commonalities that are then transformed by writers into new, innovative pieces that bring life to the older stories. These new stories have many of the same underlying elements that earlier writers used, including tales of quests or the well-known love story between Queen Guinivere and Sir Lancelot, but they have some sort of twist to them. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the most interesting commonalities revolve around the nature of the quests that the male protagonists go on as well as the exercise of control that females have on both of them.

Natalie Rose Smith ENG 225 - Section 12 23 February 2017 The Wife of Bath’s Tale: Lines 1040-1080 “The Wife of Bath” is the tale of a knight who receives punishment after he decides to rape a women he encounters on one of his journeys. As punishment, the knight is given one year to figure out what it is that women want most. Throughout the tale the knight meets many women, however, they all give him different answers until he meets the old hag.

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.

In the “Wife of the Bath’s Tales,” Chaucer is trying to say that men should listen to what women have to say, as well as respect the decisions that they make. This is shown in the text when the king is making his decisions about the knight’s life. “So ceaselessly he gave the queen the case and granted her his life...,”(Chaucer 42). This shows that the king was willing to change his decision about the knight's fate and allow his wife to do what she felt was a better choice. This point is further shown later in the story when the knight says, “My lady and my love, my dearest wife, I leave the matter to your wise decision” (Chaucer 376). This shows that the knight, who at the beginning of the story was about to be beheaded for rape, was willing

Feminism is a big factor as the wife is trying to convey that women should have the same rights as men do in a marriage. By contrasting her story with the actions of holy men, and using herself as an example, The Wife of Bath

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.

The Queen, old hag, and the Wife of Bath all portray this misogynist idea that the absurd crime the knight has committed can be resolved. When King Arthur was first notified about the maiden’s rape, he immediately sentenced the knight to death. Through pleading, the Queen was able to convince the King to allow her to decide his fate in which she, “graunte thee lif if thou canst tellen me /

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.

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

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.

“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