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    The Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath In the Hollywood blockbuster Basic Instinct‚ Sharon Stone plays a devious‚ manipulative‚ sex-driven woman who gets whatever she wants through her ploys for control. Stone’s portrayal of this character is unforgettable and makes the movie. In book or film‚ the most memorable female characters are those who break out of the stereotypical "good wife" mold. When an author or actress uses this technique effectively‚ the woman often carries the story. In Geoffrey

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    In the Canterbury Tales there are many memorable characters throughout the variety of tales. However‚ the most memorable character comes from The Wife of Bath. Here the audience is introduced to the Wife of Bath a woman with a stronger character development than most past female roles in literature. What makes her a controversial character is that she has been married five times and uses biblical scripture in order to strengthen her arguments throughout her spoken autobiography. She is defined by

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    "The Wife of Bath" Through information given by Chaucer that is implied and stated directly throughout the prologue of "The Canterbury Tales" Chaucer gives the impression that The Wife of Bath is a deviant woman. Chaucer states directly and implies his thoughts in the prologue relating to The Wife of Bath’s physical appearance‚ her qualities‚ traits and other background information. Chaucer portrays the Wife of Bath as a deviant and rather ugly woman. The physical appearance of the Wife of Bath

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    what makes it timeless and placeless. The first pilgrim that I choose to explain the validity of the statement is the Wife of Bath. The Wife of Bath is technically a seamstress‚ but some say she is a professional wife because she has been married five times. She is not the normal wife; she openly expresses her joy of sex and she is so outspoken she likes to argue. The Wife of Bath represents feminism and that is why she is an example of why The Canterbury Tales are timeless. Women at her time had

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    time‚ even in the past abuse like this existed‚ but there wasn’t a term for it‚ especially if it was your wife. Likely you would be told that she’s a little rambunctious or noisy and she will calm down‚ but that may not be the problem. The Wife of Bath in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales can be classified as an abuser by the methods she uses to control her husbands. Emotional abuse is the Wife of Bath’s greatest tool against her first husbands. In the Wife’s Prologue‚ she tells of the accusations

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    Canterbury Tales‚ the Wife of Bath represents a nontraditional role for women of that time. A woman’s role customarily did not include a voice in society‚ religion‚ or government. The Wife of Bath’s history includes five marriages‚ numerous lovers‚ and three trips to Jerusalem. The Wife of Bath’s character steps outside tradition in both the physical and the psychological aspects‚ emerges as a heroine for women‚ but surfaces as a villain for men. Physically‚ the Wife of Bath may have grown unattractive

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    The Wife of Bath’s Character Analysis. The Canterbury Tales was written in the late 1380’s. The Wife of Bath was a strange woman for her time period. Most women in this time frame had no say in marriage‚ and mostly stayed with one man. The Wife of Bath wasa woman who was on the pilgrimage to Canterbury and a woman who told her story. The Wife of Bath’s apperance say a lot about her personality‚ and her sexuality. In Chaucer’s days gapped teeth were looked at as a sign of being promiscous. She has

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    Wife of Bath Quiz 1. What 2 things are contrasted right at the beginning of the Prologue? 2. What age was Alisoun when she first got married? 3. How many times has she been married? 4. What does someone tell her shows she should only be married once? 5. She says she doesn’t know how she should interpret the story of the Samaritan woman‚ but what text does she say she can well understand? 6. Which biblical figures had ‘wyves mo than oon’? 7. What is Alisoun’s pragmatic view

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    The Wife of Bath uses the prologue to explain that what women most desire is complete control over their husbands. Because she has had five husbands‚ the Wife feels that she can speak with authority from this experience‚ and‚ in the prologue‚ she tells how she got the upper hand with each of them. The tale carries this basic thesis that what women truly want is control in their lives. The tale relates to the wife of bath’s own experience with her fifth husband

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    for interesting characters. Chaucer’s use of women and their overstepping their boundaries and typical roles in society make them most memorable. Most of the gender expectations stemmed from the Church and biblical history. There were many anti-feminist feelings due to Eve causing the fall of Man. Women were perceived to be responsible for most of the suffering to man‚ and were therefore inferior and to be dominated by their husbands and men in general. "The courtly lady of medieval poetry has

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