The Role Of Desire In The Wide Of Bath's Tale

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In the story The Wide of Bath’s Tae, there was a knight searching for what women most desire. Some people were saying women desired honor, jollity and pleasure, gorgeous clothes, or to have fun in bed, but none of these answers were right. Women desire many things, but most importantly, it is sovereignty. In the story, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the knight finds the answer from an old lady whom he has to marry. “A woman wants the self-same sovereignty, over her husband as over her lover, and master him; he must not be above her,” is the answer for women’s desires. Equality is all they want. The history of humans, the male has always been the dominant one. Women were treated wrongfully in our past history. The could not get a job, had to be

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