The Wife Of Bath Rhetorical Analysis

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Lines 39 through 56 iterates that friars chase fairies away and have evil spirits to descend on women; this unintentionally reveals the Wife of Bath’s sensual personality. Following this, lines 101 through 126 summarizes that women desire physical benefits, freedom, flattery, compliments, etc.; her agreement to these desires portrays the Wife’s conceited personality, while the truth of women being tricked by men’s flattery or attentiveness shows her knowledgeable character in men which comes from her past experiences. Lastly, lines 433 through 440 states the happy ending of the two character’s marriage life after the husband giving his obedience, and that the husbands who are not willing to be governed by wives should be killed; this shows

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