Femininity In The Wife Of Bath

In Wife of Bath you can see that the male pilgrims and woman who are telling tales are totally opposite of one another. Males talk more about money and the Wife of Bath is one a more sensitive subject, which is how women are petard in marriages. A woman in the Wife of Bath are characterized lustful, greedy and a leech to their husband. When first reading the text you may perceive the wife of bath to be a good digger based on the number of husbands she had, but depending on how you look at the situation you may view a bit different. The Wife of Bath shines the light on anti feminism that virginity and marriage go hand in hand. This is so when Alisoun is a widower who remarried five times. In lines 65-68, “God defended marriage” that God disproved of her marriages and would have procreate if he was to disapprove virginity.
For more in lines 215-220, she is coming what a wise lady should do, how the woman should place themselves in a greater power in their relationship. If a woman can make’s a man fell in love with her she can use this as a potential to gain power over him. There is a lot of anti feminism throughout the text to help you better understand the character more. In the Wife of Bath, you see that does not follow the typical expectations of a wife should. You can see in lines 300-303, if your husband was to beat you, you were to get a divorce this was concerned a norm to leave you husband for any reason. Christians in the 1400s had a strong a belief in divorcing you partner and it is still a tradition today. The wife of Bath controls her husbands in different marriages instead of the man being the dominant figure. In the Wife of Bath sexuality is very obvious and plays a big part in the text. On lines 160-164, she is describing sexual upon one’s flesh. The wife desires can be suffering for