In The Wife of Bath Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer portrays the Wife as a woman who contradicts with certain commands told by her husband. Her character and her beliefs correlate with the tale she tells through marriage, sovereignty, and virginity. In the Middle Ages, men were thought to have control over their wives from the sense of God. God made Adam and Eve so they could explore the perfection of Earth, love one another, and obey God’s teachings. However, they rebelled against God’s word when they ate fruit from the tree of good and evil which resulted in them having to leave the Garden of Eden. Under those circumstances, it is assured that Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales to idolize how the pilgrims in the tales lived differently from what
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Therefore, nobody wants to be denied of being able to have a say so in their marriage because of the fact it's meant to be built on unification and understanding. Pardoner from the tale even didn’t even want to get married because women felt as if they were the higher power (Chaucer 125). Not to mention, Adam and Eve’s love is the perfect example of a love story that depicts a disobedient wife and obeying husband to god and his teachings. “If the idea of women as physically, mentally and socially inferior was inherited by the Middle Ages from the ancient world, there is no doubt that it was buttressed by the account of the creation and the fall given in the book of Genesis.” (Rigby) . God told Eve that she should be under her husband's power and he should have dominion over her. God felt that way because he made Adam first, and he made Eve out of Adam’s rib (Rigby). As a result, the man is holding the power in the relationship while the woman obeys her husband's word. Despite the fact God's word is controversy to women, it's part of the reason sovereignty is a major problem in a marriage. The Wife and the women in the tale already spoke of judgment, and also stated how a woman wanted to be looked at as good and wholesome (Chaucer 129). To enumerate, the article says, “As for the Wife of Bath herself, her own experience must have made her aware …show more content…
Chaucer explains the mind of a woman through the Wife of Bath tales by her experiences upon marriage, sovereignty, and virginity. Men and women emphasize what they seek in marriage and on how God views affect the way people rather live their life. All in all, people can’t be in accordance with one another, and not be disciplined in love they share. They have to be diligent in who they are, and what they believe in because it’s only one life to live, and rather or not everything is rightfully done, a person has the ability to say they lived the worldly life to the best of their ability. The love that’s dispersed in the world, will be the love obtained in return through good
Therefore, nobody wants to be denied of being able to have a say so in their marriage because of the fact it's meant to be built on unification and understanding. Pardoner from the tale even didn’t even want to get married because women felt as if they were the higher power (Chaucer 125). Not to mention, Adam and Eve’s love is the perfect example of a love story that depicts a disobedient wife and obeying husband to god and his teachings. “If the idea of women as physically, mentally and socially inferior was inherited by the Middle Ages from the ancient world, there is no doubt that it was buttressed by the account of the creation and the fall given in the book of Genesis.” (Rigby) . God told Eve that she should be under her husband's power and he should have dominion over her. God felt that way because he made Adam first, and he made Eve out of Adam’s rib (Rigby). As a result, the man is holding the power in the relationship while the woman obeys her husband's word. Despite the fact God's word is controversy to women, it's part of the reason sovereignty is a major problem in a marriage. The Wife and the women in the tale already spoke of judgment, and also stated how a woman wanted to be looked at as good and wholesome (Chaucer 129). To enumerate, the article says, “As for the Wife of Bath herself, her own experience must have made her aware …show more content…
Chaucer explains the mind of a woman through the Wife of Bath tales by her experiences upon marriage, sovereignty, and virginity. Men and women emphasize what they seek in marriage and on how God views affect the way people rather live their life. All in all, people can’t be in accordance with one another, and not be disciplined in love they share. They have to be diligent in who they are, and what they believe in because it’s only one life to live, and rather or not everything is rightfully done, a person has the ability to say they lived the worldly life to the best of their ability. The love that’s dispersed in the world, will be the love obtained in return through good