With all of this being said about The Wife of Bath being a joke herself within the text, there is much to note about the utter skill she has of forming stories to providing crafty justifications for her actions. This idea can be seen within the first few pages of her prologue in which she goes on about her justifications for who she is. She argues that figures such as Abraham and Jacob “had wives more than two”, which negates the issue of her multiple messages (Chaucer 235). She is quoting figures held in high reverence in order to prove herself to be just a holy as they are, and that there is nothing wrong with her actions if they are just the same as biblical figures. Not only does she have a deep knowledge of the text but also cunning into
