The model of a woman is often being sculpted because of her differences from man.
Women are given many roles overtime, but mainly roles that make them appear weak and roles determined by her capabilities. There are so many gender roles that differ depending on religion and cultural values. The “Wife of Bath’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales creates an archetype of a woman based on her instincts and human drives, not on her capabilities. However, this tale eliminates gender roles through presenting the needs of both women and men and creates a fine line between them, demonstrating that women and men are on the same level of interests.
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She gives him pleasure in bed, as the end suggests when it says she gives him everything that might “give him pleasure and or joy”. (p 359, l 400). She lets him be free as he pleases when she allows him to choose the wife he wants best, and she gives him control over her so that he may do as he wishes with her. However, she does not fully submit to him because although she promises to remain true to him forever, she handled the marriage and initiated the compromise so that it can be advantageous to her. If he would not have given her love, she would not be satisfied, as was seen at the night of her marriage when she wanted to make him love her. There is a balance of control between the man and the woman in a marriage, but this control is only to keep their desires fulfilled. If they cannot communicate and compromise then the marriage will ultimately fail due to the fact that someone is bound to only listen to his or her own needs.
If Jung finds that an archetype is an instinctual thought in the unconscious derived form collective human thought and experience then the archetype of a woman in marriage must fulfill an archetype of a man in marriage because they are experiencing each other. In order to make
Women are given many roles overtime, but mainly roles that make them appear weak and roles determined by her capabilities. There are so many gender roles that differ depending on religion and cultural values. The “Wife of Bath’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales creates an archetype of a woman based on her instincts and human drives, not on her capabilities. However, this tale eliminates gender roles through presenting the needs of both women and men and creates a fine line between them, demonstrating that women and men are on the same level of interests.
According to Jungian psychology, an archetype is “an inherited idea or mode of thought supposed to be present …show more content…
She gives him pleasure in bed, as the end suggests when it says she gives him everything that might “give him pleasure and or joy”. (p 359, l 400). She lets him be free as he pleases when she allows him to choose the wife he wants best, and she gives him control over her so that he may do as he wishes with her. However, she does not fully submit to him because although she promises to remain true to him forever, she handled the marriage and initiated the compromise so that it can be advantageous to her. If he would not have given her love, she would not be satisfied, as was seen at the night of her marriage when she wanted to make him love her. There is a balance of control between the man and the woman in a marriage, but this control is only to keep their desires fulfilled. If they cannot communicate and compromise then the marriage will ultimately fail due to the fact that someone is bound to only listen to his or her own needs.
If Jung finds that an archetype is an instinctual thought in the unconscious derived form collective human thought and experience then the archetype of a woman in marriage must fulfill an archetype of a man in marriage because they are experiencing each other. In order to make