The Wife of Bath's Tale

have been to find a husband, get married, and start a family. Although they were written centuries apart, Geoffrey Chaucer’s 1387 story “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and Lee Smith’s 1982 short story “Dear Phil Donahue” both examine the life of a woman who longs to be heard and how she is affected by her marriage (or marriages). Alison in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” longs for an audience so that she can speak with authority in the male dominated society of 1387 and combat men’s anti-feminist views on…

The first statement mentions that “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is a transformation story about a flawed or ugly woman who has to be rescued or restored by the right man. However, the plot that the question has stated does not appeared in both the prologue and the tale. Even though there is an appearance of an ugly old woman in the last part of the tale, it is not that she has been rescued or restored by a man. Instead, it was more like the old woman is teaching the man that he cannot judge a person…

Inside Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”, a reader finds their attention falling upon a rowdy, fair-faced woman, who has been married five times. She is open with her words, ideas, and sexuality. These features are simply unheard for women of her time. Her openness leads many readers to believe she is a woman beyond her time, a feminist even. However, upon further inspection one finds that the Wife of Bath is actually the embodiment of an anti-feminist, she is absurdly physically minded, and does not…

century often portrayed many patriarchal influences against women in their writing. Such was the case with Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, since a majority of the characters were males expressing patriarchal ideology through their prologues and their tales. However, Chaucer also includes a female character that diverges from the patriarchal…

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales serves as a striking social commentary on the class system, religious life, and gender roles of Medieval society. Through the Prioress’ Tale, he criticizes the anti-Semitism and narcissism of the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, the Wife of Bath’s Tale acts as a strong commentary on the role of women in society. Because of Christianity’s influence on society, anyone who fell outside the Renaissance man category tended to fall by the wayside. Chaucer’s depiction of Medieval…

you’ll see people of all ages disrespecting humanity as a whole not realizing that disrespecting others will lead to finding a specific other so dear to your heart, regardless of ethnicity who has been taken advantage of. In the story “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer helps consider the consequences of disrespecting others and seeing them in another light. This knight must go on a depressing journey to find what the true meaning of chivalry…

In wife of bath’s tale, a young knight made a very huge mistake, he raped an innocent girl. The knight was brought to court. The queen asked him a simple question. What do women most desire? As soon as he got out of the court, he started looking for answers. In page 188 it says “ he knocked at every house, searched every place, yes, anywhere that offered hope of grace”. He was very desperate for an answer. Some said money some said “jollity and pleasure” and some others said “fun in bed”. He…

In The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the queen commands the knight to discover the answer of ‘What is it that women most desire?’, or he will die. The lust drives the knight lost then he takes away the virginity of a maid. Hence, he seeks the answer for one year. The knight searches for the answer far and wide. He gets many of the various answers: people said women are eager for wealth, glory, beauty, luxury outlook, sexuality, remarriage, adulation, the support of husband (for anything the wife wants to…

In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, at the beginning of the story, the knight has taken advantage of a lonely girl, who was walking all alone on a road. The original punishment, from the king, was for him to lose his head. However, the queen did not seem this was fit for a punishment, I assume because he was higher up on the totem pole. Instead, the queen offers him a whole year and a day in order to find out what women most desire. I strongly disagree with the queen and her idea of a punishment. I…

In The wife of bath’s tale “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” – Oscar Wilde. Men often feel they are authoritative, and women should be obedient. The Wife of Bath is immodest; she applies her sexual utilize in the way she uses sexual power to secure what she desires. In the medieval time there’s not much she does to achieve the power she craves. Most women desire freedom and sovereignty of leadership, “A woman wants the self-same sovereignty over her husband…