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Daytona Coles,

Jessica Carrell,

18th October 2020.

"Wife of Bath's Tale"

a) General prologue.

"Experience", although there were no written authorities in the world, "enough for me". So

begins the Lady of Bath's voice. Undoubtedly, she has had an "experience" and is ready to

justify it against biblical authority. She had five husbands, and the Scriptures justify this:

Christ never taught that people shouldn't get married just once, the Bible says "go and

multiply" and Solomon had more than one wife. The wife's husbands, chosen for their "yes"

and "inferior research", were all good men, and await the sixth. He also points out that Jesus

never makes a law about virginity and basically states that we have parts for sex and that we

should use them as such: "they were killed at night".

b) analysis.

Bath's wife is one of Chaucer's oldest figures and rightly one of Canterbury's most famous

pilgrims. His voice is extremely distinct, strong, confident, extremely aggressive and his long

prologue silences Perdono and Frate (who are then parodied at the beginning of the story) to

dare to interrupt them. One of the main issues with the historical interpretation of women's

history has been the relationship between the prologue and history: some critics have found

that women's history ends with the melancholy and sad melancholy of an elderly woman with

hopes for her sixth husband. it may be unnecessary.

Other critics treated the story as a matter of "domination" and control, arguing that the history

of women, starting with rape (a man physically dominating a woman), is deeply based on his
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conclusion about it. what exactly is desire is ambiguous. . Conformity. It certainly doesn't

make much sense for a woman to be dominant if all she needs to do is please her husband.

However, it seems to me that the woman's history and prologue can be treated as a long

monologue, and it is the voice that we ourselves attribute to this monologue that cannot be

precisely defined. The history of women inherits the theme of women as a literary text

(Constança was "pale" in the history of the legal man, as a document waiting to be written

and used as a basis for negotiation by merchants and perhaps lawyers) and to develop it.

The woman claims to represent female voices and her story is composed of a series of women

who represent themselves. The raped girl is represented by the queen, who in turn is

represented by the oppressed woman, who in turn becomes a beautiful woman: the image that

precedes her appearance is conveniently of twenty-four women who seem to disappear into

one. The woman speaks for women around the world and against male employees who wrote

the anti-feminist literature that Jankin reads in his book wyves wyves.
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Works cited.

"The Canterbury Tales: The Wife Of Bath’S Tale | Sparknotes". Sparknotes.Com, 2020,

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/section10/.

Coghill, Nevill. The Canterbury tales: Geoffrey Chaucer. Translated into modern English by

Nevill Coghill. Penguin, 1951.