What Is Chaucer's Patriarchy

Who wants to live in a world full of only one gender running the world. Chaucer had an attack on the patriarchy and class nobility. He had a problem with men telling women what to do, and that women weren’t anything without men. Aristotle says that God made the world, for men to run it. We’ll come to realize that Chaucer’s challenge of the patriarchy and class nobility than the challenge to the Church hypocrisy. Pretty much in these times you were somebody only if you were born to a somebody. The wife of Bath was a women, which is significant, she was one out of only two women n the entire entourage. Within the entourage there was patriarchy. She will have a lot to say to the men. She will tell the men to be quiet so she can speak, she will also state that she had previously been married five times, all of her husbands died. Just like Chaucer she thinks the idea of patriarchy is garbage. She states how women have control over men. How women have control not only through sex and economics but also through law. She …show more content…
She says men have trouble with simple logic and mind tricks. She says that the person with the less patience has the key. While women run the show en think they do. She did come along a hot guy and instead of his smarts and money but he came to be awful. She doesn’t blame men but she blames the bible for blaming women for everything wrong. There’s only one thing that women want more then anything else. Freedom, women often feel controlled by their man. The wife of Bath also tells the men that they will never know if they love them until they are given their freedom. She manipulates him when she tells him to hit her and then gets him to apologize, therefor getting what she wanted. Clearly women have a way to loop it around men to make them think they are in control but the women are truly running everything by