Wife Of Bath's Tale

The “Wife of Bath’s Tale” was written during a time when literature was littered with new twists on old concepts such as sexuality, gender, and humor. These twists were exemplified in the depiction of relationships during the time the tale was written (Nichols 422). In the prologue of the “Wife of Bath’s Tale,” the wife walks the reader through all of her past marriages, speaking about the differences in each marriage and what she wanted out of marriage. Consequently, her past marriages failed to satisfy her wants and desires. She lived searching for fulfillment and in her search produced the “Wife of Bath's Tale." In her the writing of this tale she was able to live out the fulfillment that she so craved in a fantasy she created (Steinberg …show more content…
She would take him back in for the sake of being in love. In this context, the statement deals with her truth concerning love. The reader reads this line and gains a deeper insight on how the narrator thinks about truth and love. She, the wife, believes that all women should mimic her truth, which is to say her way of thinking. The narrator is foreshadowing what her intentions are in the telling of the tale. She wants to infer what women want, which is to have power over men.
Whatever thing we can not easily win we will cry after continually and crave.
She then introduces the unsavory characteristic of greed, an intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power. The statement depicts the behavioral reaction if a woman does not obtain something they desire. An unsatisfied woman will voice complaints until the object of her desire is acquired or fulfilled. These desires can be a tangible item or an emotional connection. The trend of selfish desire continues throughout this