Historically the Catholic Church and the Christian religion have downplayed the role of women. She was considered as a being who was only able to do housework and unable to perform tasks that relate to a whole community. I refer to the work of a statesman, ruler, or any other position in which greater responsibility and management of mass was required. They were eager companions of kings, workers, leaders, men of law, etc. We can analyze the role that women played in medieval times in the texts “Beowulf” and “The wife of Bath’s Prologue” by Geoffrey Chaucer.
In “Beowulf” we can observe a cultural-religious mix of the Nordic people with a strong Catholic Church which at the time was entering the lives of all the inhabitants of the European continent …show more content…
The first thing you can realize from Alice is that she was a woman with a broad sense of control, which knows how to act and represents women and all their intelligence, and which will be able to lie for earn achievements with her husband. As she narrates in the prologue “I made him think he had enchanted me. And said I had dreamed of him all night” (Chaucer). Alice portrays herself as woman that didn’t let her be used by men, she was intelligent and self-sufficient; she knew what shew wanted and saw men as tools to achieve her desires. She just wanted to end the role of men as lord and master. I think that in some parts the author makes her appear like a charlatan, lusty, and cunning because he at the time needed to attract male …show more content…
The man not only medieval but also from earlier times, notices the possibility that the woman, really smart and self-sufficient, could ever be at the same level or even surpass him in terms of authority. Given this fear male reaction is subordinate role of women at their convenience making it impossible, among other things, to participate in political activities by confining them to domestic activity. All these constraints coming from ancestors, led the woman to develop what might be called an alternative path, reaching in medieval times as a wise figure and whose knowledge have been passed from generation to generation waiting to rebel against this oppression in order to be considered as a key factor for the development of the
In “Beowulf” we can observe a cultural-religious mix of the Nordic people with a strong Catholic Church which at the time was entering the lives of all the inhabitants of the European continent …show more content…
The first thing you can realize from Alice is that she was a woman with a broad sense of control, which knows how to act and represents women and all their intelligence, and which will be able to lie for earn achievements with her husband. As she narrates in the prologue “I made him think he had enchanted me. And said I had dreamed of him all night” (Chaucer). Alice portrays herself as woman that didn’t let her be used by men, she was intelligent and self-sufficient; she knew what shew wanted and saw men as tools to achieve her desires. She just wanted to end the role of men as lord and master. I think that in some parts the author makes her appear like a charlatan, lusty, and cunning because he at the time needed to attract male …show more content…
The man not only medieval but also from earlier times, notices the possibility that the woman, really smart and self-sufficient, could ever be at the same level or even surpass him in terms of authority. Given this fear male reaction is subordinate role of women at their convenience making it impossible, among other things, to participate in political activities by confining them to domestic activity. All these constraints coming from ancestors, led the woman to develop what might be called an alternative path, reaching in medieval times as a wise figure and whose knowledge have been passed from generation to generation waiting to rebel against this oppression in order to be considered as a key factor for the development of the