Canterbury Tales Essay - Wife of Bath and the Battle of the Sexes:

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October 12, 2014

 

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They were often beaten, and it is clearly in the Wife's nature to protect herself. She uses weapons like her sexuality and her youth to make her husbands suffer, so much so that they feel impotent. 'How pitously a-night I made hem swinke!' This weapon was highly effective with first three husbands who she managed to dominate, 'I hadde hem hoolly in myn hond' and they handed over 'lond and hir tresoor' as she with held sex in order to get her own way with them...
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She accuses them of being miserly, 'Why hidestow, with sorwe, The keyes of thy cheste awey fro me?' She easily attains power over her first three husbands in this way, as they usually always capitulated for the sake of peace, as she notes, 'They were ful glad whan I spak to hem faire For, God it woot, I chidde hem spitously...
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