Chaucer suggests that the ability of people to understand someone of the opposite sex is misleading or blinded by traditional ranking, yet it is possible to be understood. This is shown in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by having a knight travel to find “What is the thing that women most desire?”. In The Men We Carry In Our Minds by Scott Russell Sanders, Sanders expresses how his view of women changed while discussions with his friend, Anneke. News Coverage of a Woman's Right Campaign from New York Times states how women are struggling to fight for equality by getting rid of traditional stereotypes. A knight is told by a queen to search for what women most desire, if he wishes to not be executed for raping a woman. He stops to ask locals about what they think the answer is, “Some said that women wanted
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That’s very near the truth, it seems to me; A man can win us best with flattery. To dance attendance on us, make a fuss,Ensnares us all, the best and worst of us” (80). This suggests that everyone has their own interpretation of what women most want, although some might agree with others, but being controversial indicates how this is not what women want. The knight later, accepting his failure, finds a group of women dancing near a forest. He stops to ask them if they could answer the question, the women then vanish then become a single old woman. Confused, the man asks if she could answer his question anyway. In response she states “A woman wants the self-same sovereignty over her husband as over her lover, and master him; he must not be above her” (82). The knight returns to the queen and gives her the answer to her question, which is then spared. He is forced to marry the old woman, which he had
That’s very near the truth, it seems to me; A man can win us best with flattery. To dance attendance on us, make a fuss,Ensnares us all, the best and worst of us” (80). This suggests that everyone has their own interpretation of what women most want, although some might agree with others, but being controversial indicates how this is not what women want. The knight later, accepting his failure, finds a group of women dancing near a forest. He stops to ask them if they could answer the question, the women then vanish then become a single old woman. Confused, the man asks if she could answer his question anyway. In response she states “A woman wants the self-same sovereignty over her husband as over her lover, and master him; he must not be above her” (82). The knight returns to the queen and gives her the answer to her question, which is then spared. He is forced to marry the old woman, which he had