The Canterbury Tales: Wife Of Bath

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April 13, 2015

 

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When an author or actress uses this technique effectively, the woman often carries the story. In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, he portrays the Wife of Bath, Alison, as a woman who bucks the tradition of her times with her brashness and desire for control to present a woman's point of view and to evoke some sympathy for her...
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However, in this story, the Wife is a woman who has outlived four of five husbands for "of five housbodes scoleying" (P50) is she. She holds not her tongue, and says exactly what she thinks, even if she contradicts others, even Jesus. For in the Bible it states that Jesus "Spak in repreve of the Samaritan:/?Thou hast yhad five housbondes,' quod he,/?And that ilke man that now hath thee/Is nat thyn housbonde'" (P16)...
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