The Canterbury Tales is a handed-down master piece which enjoys the reputation of the world. The author Chaucer based on his rich experience, sharp eyes and vivid strokes, depicting the image of all kinds of people in the various sectors of society at that age. Those images have clear outline, vivid and realistic, and contributes a profound reflection of British society landscape at the end of the 14th century (E.Legouis 202). In his elaborately shaped 29 pilgrims to Canterbury pilgrimage, there is a rebellious woman who transcends the group. Her language is amazing, enlightening and impressive. She is the wife of Bath who is trying to makes a contest with the male world. When we read the story of the wife of Bath, people will feel that she
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She has got married at 12 years old for five times total, and always been ready to welcome the sixth husband. In the family life, she used the flesh function of women and the weakness of men to force men to surrender of land and property, to make them be willing in silence in a subordinate position, thus establishing the female in the dominant position in economic life and family life based on the body and individual experience. The wife of Bath was not only praised as the radical feminism and a minority representative of feminism. (Anne …show more content…
Feminists argue that the wife of Bath has challenged this established gender model. She speaks and chatters, and vigorously uses language to fight and show off her domination in marriage, family and life. As a female figure, she judges things according to intuition and irrationality, and solves the problem from the experience rather than the authority (Martin 293). The wife of Bath pursued the secular joy and physical fulfillment, the unpopular and unavoidable temptations that marriage imposed on the flesh, which are the pursuit that she is willing to accept and highly respected. She asked why God to create a human reproductive organs, she believes that except the urination role, there is “fertility obligations and happy (Geoffery 405).” She claims to use her words to attack men in order to retaliate against men. Obviously, she is dependent on the power of discourse to achieve the purpose of domination, and control of the behavior of others. Discourse as the powerful weapon which dominates her marriage life and gender relations, which has the same power with sex and money. The wife of Bath also tells the whole process of her and the fifth husband scholar Zhan Jin from the encounter and married to marriage life. In this part, she not only violently attacked men's dominion with words, but also put into practical action, with non-verbal behavior to express her determination to
She has got married at 12 years old for five times total, and always been ready to welcome the sixth husband. In the family life, she used the flesh function of women and the weakness of men to force men to surrender of land and property, to make them be willing in silence in a subordinate position, thus establishing the female in the dominant position in economic life and family life based on the body and individual experience. The wife of Bath was not only praised as the radical feminism and a minority representative of feminism. (Anne …show more content…
Feminists argue that the wife of Bath has challenged this established gender model. She speaks and chatters, and vigorously uses language to fight and show off her domination in marriage, family and life. As a female figure, she judges things according to intuition and irrationality, and solves the problem from the experience rather than the authority (Martin 293). The wife of Bath pursued the secular joy and physical fulfillment, the unpopular and unavoidable temptations that marriage imposed on the flesh, which are the pursuit that she is willing to accept and highly respected. She asked why God to create a human reproductive organs, she believes that except the urination role, there is “fertility obligations and happy (Geoffery 405).” She claims to use her words to attack men in order to retaliate against men. Obviously, she is dependent on the power of discourse to achieve the purpose of domination, and control of the behavior of others. Discourse as the powerful weapon which dominates her marriage life and gender relations, which has the same power with sex and money. The wife of Bath also tells the whole process of her and the fifth husband scholar Zhan Jin from the encounter and married to marriage life. In this part, she not only violently attacked men's dominion with words, but also put into practical action, with non-verbal behavior to express her determination to