The Wife of Bath's Tale

Known as the father of English literature, this story was written by Geoffrey Chaucer, who is best known for his greatest unfinished poetic work in English, known as Canterbury Tales. Within “Canterbury Tales”, there are three different “estates” discussed. The first estate are a few individuals of hereditary aristocracy (the Knight, Yeoman, and Squire) whose mission on earth was supposed to be to rule over and defend the people of the nation. Then the clergy (Monk, Prioress, and Friar,…

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales fit into at least one of the many molds and careers that would make them part of the middle class. The Reeve would be considered a part of the middle class because his job holds a higher, more honorable status than a simple peasant. As the leader of a village, the Reeve was respected by many peasants. He also held a higher social standing in matters regarding the nobility since he led those of the bottom class. Characters like the Merchant and the Wife of Bath are…

two common representations for these categories are Eve and the Virgin Mary, which Eve was to be the downfall of men where Mary, mother of Christ, was the symbolic vision of purity. Chaucer also describes in the prologue the characteristics of the wife, which all of what he mentions would be considered a woman of lust, high self-confidence, and overall power-hungry attitude. It is also shown how people used God as a justification of one’s actions in Chaucer’s time, claiming that this was God’s…

On Oklahoma postman rescued a young girl from a burning house, a paramedic bride helped people in a car crash, despite the fact that her wedding was still going on, and a marine who lost both feet in Afghanistan saved a baby from a car crash. They all had a choice to walk away and not care at all, yet they decided to take a risk and save a life. These courageous heroes didn’t even think twice about the possible harmful consequences of their actions. The actions of true heroes today are deemed as…

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…

religion played a major role in the development of these negative images of women. The first women within the Medieval time period that worked to defy these female stereotypes is the fictional character from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath, and the second woman was a real historical…

In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer brings characters with somewhat strange or distorted religious practices that go against the norm of Christianity at that time. He tries to show that religion is a motivator, a reassurance, and something to chase after. However, it is not the shaper of your life. It’s the goal, but not the reality. If someone acts in a non-religious way, it is not an obvious implication that they are completely non-religious or that they are horrible people for not practicing…