Chaucer's political views on the other hand are a subject of much debate. One critic, Treharne, stabs close to a true analysis of the "The Wife of Bath" when she says that the Wife "is the uncontrollable voice that eludes interpretative truth. The ultimate secret she reveals is that all who think they can control, penetrate, and master such texts as she represents are deluded...
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The ultimate secret she reveals is that all who think they can control, penetrate, and master such texts as she represents are deluded. All the critics can do is create interpretations that double their own desire" (3). Unfortunately, Treharne then continues in the same analytical drivel of the critics who seek to impregnate Chaucer's Wife with modern perspectives and social mores...
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