Dante steadily uses Pop Nicholas’ character in order to criticize the church. He tells then goes on to tell Nicholas that he and some others in his church that want earthly wealth and power have gone to establish money as their God instead of worshipping who we know as the true God.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale addresses the issues of authority over women by permitting her, the Wife, to both undermine textual authority and discard textual authority at the same time. The Wife makes it clear that she claims she does not need it but then apparently she goes one to use it in a disorganized and ineffective way. In the context of the Wife of Bath’s Tale, King Arthur is deemed as a wise king because of the fact that he bows down to his wife’s counsel. He was practicing compassion at her decree instead of just overruling her. The knight who raped the beautiful maid then gets the chance to learn from his mistakes and also to become more unassertive and respectful through a very educational journey. Even though the knight is looking for his answer form anywhere possible, women have not come to an agreement, every women he asks has a different response. The only drawback that women do have, according to the Wife