The Faithful Lady In 'The Wife Of Bath's Tale'

Yesenia Lopez
Ms. Todd
CP IV- Second Hour
1 December, 2011
The Faithful Lady
A body old, ugly and with no lucky in wealth. In “The Wife of Bath’s” exist fairies what can transform an old woman. The fairy appear in front to the Knight like old woman because she want to teach about what the woman most like; when the fairy ask to the knight the option if he want a beautiful lady but unfaithful or a ugly lady faithful. The Knight give the option to the fairy to change into whatever she wants, like an old lady for teach the lesson to the knight, as the Knight was successful given the option to choose what she wanted, and the challenge for the night is search what the women most like.
During times of kings and princesses, citizens ask for
(Lines 71-74)
Many gave their answers in different cases, but none matched correctly. After searching, the years passed quickly. The Knight could not find someone to help with the answer, riding shot in route to the court of Queen. In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” fairness, beautiful and happiness beings, appearing between the margins of the woods. In fact when the knight sow the 24 fairness dancing, but he approached in hope to learn some words “Dancers and dance all vanished into air”/There wasn’t a living creature to be seen (lines 42-43). Also all we know about fairies is they can be transform in whatever they wanted, and these case the fairness disappear and transformed in just an ugly old women in front to the Knight. For this reason we can said about the fairy is she knows why she doing con respect to teach the
Especially the Knight fortunately advantages the opportunity to ask the question; supposedly the old lady knows the answer and the Knight accept her proposition. In fact she proposes: “Give me your hand, she said, and swear to do / whatever I shall next require of you”. The Knight must obey the promise but he doesn’t know yet what it is. Meanwhile he agrees and they go back to the court where the queen pardons him after he explains that what women want most is sovereignty over their husbands, and the Queen accepts this as the correct answer. As her reward, the old woman demands that the knight marry her. He protests, but to no avail. That night in their marriage bed, the knight confesses that he is unhappy because she is ugly and poor. “You’re old, and so abominably plain” (Line 246). She tells the knight that he can choose between her being ugly and faithful or beautiful and unfaithful. He gives the choice to her; pleased with the mastery of her husband, and she becomes fair and faithful