The Wife Of Bath And The Pardoner's Tale

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The Wife of Bath is very interesting woman; her views on life and god are true to her heart and it does not bother her if people do not agree. The Wife of Bath was been through a lot of marriages and was married at age twelve.
In the Wife of Bath was very Powerful. The Wife of Bath is very open, and she talks a lot about different ways to please a man. She explains that sexual organs are designed to be used, and they are fruits in a marriage: “In thatches and in fruit of marriage” (line 120).

I would compare them by the wife of Bath's tale was large and the Pardoner's Tale was a clergy member who had authority certificates of forgiveness to people who showed great charity. The Pardoner started up, and thereupon “Madam," he said “, by God

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