Marriage In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, he writes about how the characters act and what impacts their marriage has on them. Chaucer discusses the good, sad, and bad times of marriage that many may go through with their partner. While reading the General Prologue and The Wife of Bath’s Tale, I realized that Chaucer believed marriage should be about love over wealth and power. Chaucer believed that if the husband and wife wanted and happy and healthy relationship that they should never cheat, lie, or abuse and they should always treat each other as equals, rather than having the man have more control over the women. While reading Chaucer’s work, try to imagine what it was like for them to live back in that period, and what the difference
Out of her five husbands, only three of them were nice to her, they did what she wanted, they gave her wealth, power, land, and whatever else she may have wanted while she was with them. Although she was given what she wanted, whenever she wanted it, she never stayed with any of them for an extended amount of time, for they were old, and were soon to die. Whenever one thinks of marriage they think of all the good things that may come with it, such as a family, someone to depend on, and most of all, someone who will always love you, when you find “the one,” you tend not to care about their social standings and the amount of money they may have. The Wife of Bath had a different opinion on marriage than other people may have, she believed marriage should be for wealth and power, and to get that someone may need to marry when they do not entirely care to much about their soon to be
The Wife of Bath has been married a total of five times, because of this she used the Bible to support her cause of marrying multiple men within her life. She said, “I think I loved him best, I’ll tell no lie,” about her marriage with her fifth husband (line 319 page 84.) Although she loved her fifth husband the most, he was a very abusive and mean man, when the two got into an argument, he hit her on the head causing her to become deaf in one ear. Even though her last husband was one she truly loved and did not marry him for his money, it still turned itself around on her because he just so happened to be one of the worst husbands she had, and because of this it made her believe that no matter if she married for wealth or love, it would all end the same