Chaucer’s opinion of Dame Alice’s is a very strong one. The women has been married five times, and in the story is currently looking for another man to marry. The Wife of Bath is a very opinionated women. Her point of view in the story is to demonstrate the question in reality. What do women want? He put her character as a very, strong independent women to show readers how women wish to have authority over men. In the story, Chaucer has three main point of views that we see throughout the story as we read. Feminist is one, marriage and her power she has over the men. “A wise woman will always attempt to win love where she has none; but since I had them wholly in my hand and had all their land, why should I bother to please them, unless it were for my profit and pleasure?
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Later in the story as well, she brings up a point where she tells the readers how a women’s husband should not find out about her unfaithfulness. “…for there is no man who can swear and lie half so boldly as a woman. I say this for the benefit of wise wives when they have made a little misstep. A wise wife, if she knows what is good for her, shall make a man believe that the jackdaw is mad, and shall use her own maid as a witness to confirm it...” (237-240) Chaucer may have put marriage as one of this key point of views, because it demonstrates how women can be much manipulated as well as men can be. Only difference is, women are not suspected of anything as quick as men. Another point of view on Dame Alice, is on marriage. “Blessed be God that I wedded five! And they were the best that I could pick out, both in their bodies and of their coffers.” (48-50) Throughout, the story many women would have been ashamed of marrying so many men, because they were nuns and could not do such
Later in the story as well, she brings up a point where she tells the readers how a women’s husband should not find out about her unfaithfulness. “…for there is no man who can swear and lie half so boldly as a woman. I say this for the benefit of wise wives when they have made a little misstep. A wise wife, if she knows what is good for her, shall make a man believe that the jackdaw is mad, and shall use her own maid as a witness to confirm it...” (237-240) Chaucer may have put marriage as one of this key point of views, because it demonstrates how women can be much manipulated as well as men can be. Only difference is, women are not suspected of anything as quick as men. Another point of view on Dame Alice, is on marriage. “Blessed be God that I wedded five! And they were the best that I could pick out, both in their bodies and of their coffers.” (48-50) Throughout, the story many women would have been ashamed of marrying so many men, because they were nuns and could not do such