The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer, and has a general prologue and twenty four tales that are connected by their journey. In The Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath gives a complex character, which the wife is different from the way she represents herself, and not even what herself thinks who she is. By listening to her story about her past five husbands and her tale about the knight, the Wife of Bath gives the reader a radical look on her life and understanding on the world what she perceives it. In some ways, the Wife is a positive role model for women of the middle ages because she uses her intelligence to maintain control in a time period when women had very little control. The wife is dare to be herself, it is kind
