In The Wife of Bath's Tale, Chaucer’s actual meaning for telling this story was to show how people can change if given a chance to. “And of that maiden, spite of all she said, by very force he took her maidenhead”(Chaucer Lines 33-34). “So much petitioning of the king for her, that he condemned the knight to lose his head by course of law”(Chaucer Lines 36-38). In the beginning the knight had raped a maiden and later was going to get his head chopped off for it by the king’s orders. The knight had made a grave mistake and was going to pay for it. But before he is to go to the chopping block, “But that the queen, and other ladies too, implored the king to exercise his grace so ceaselessly, he gave the queen the case”(Chaucer Lines 40-43). You
