READ THE PROLOGUE “THE WIFE OF BATH” AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS SUPPORTING THEM WITH THE TEXTS. 1-Choose two biblical examples from the text in the Prologue and examine how the Wife has used / interpreted / challenged these extracts from the Bible. (2‚ 5) A: People use to criticize the Wife´s marriages‚ because according Bible‚ everybody just could marry once and she had married five times. However‚ there are same extracts from the Bible that the Wife use in her favour and with it‚ she makes
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Amanda Padron November 19‚ 2012 Period 2 The Canterbury Tales Essay Geoffery Chaucer wrote twenty-four tales but the most noticeable of these twenty-four tales are "The Pardoners Tale" and "The Wife Of Baths Tale". The Wife of Bath’s Tale" is the more likely candidate to win against "The Pardoner’s Tale" in the morality side. The reason her tale has morality is the goodness of the poor and broken. Once her story is near its end and the knight‚ her protagonist‚ is face to face with the old woman
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outside of what the church finds acceptable. The narrator draws attention to the Wife of Bath’s red face and stockings as well as her gapped tooth which are all allusions to lust or sensual. The trait of her flushed complexion insinuates that she is sanguine‚ sociable‚ talkative‚ and lively as the narrator describes her‚ “In fellowship‚ quite well she laughed and joked.” (476.673) The narrator thinks better of the Wife than of the Prioress as he says that the Prioress is caring a bit too much of how
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Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. The Wife of Bath is one such storyteller. An older‚ experienced‚ well-traveled woman‚ she begins her story with a prologue stuffed with sexually explicit personal anecdotes before starting her tale about a knight of King Author’s court raping a young maiden. Some scholars make the claim that the Wife of Bath conveys a negative portrayal of women as an anti-feminist figure through her prologue and tale. Others make the claim that the wife is ironically supporting women against
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The story the Wife of Bath and Sir Gawain tell are the same general plot and climax. The sequence of events that occur happen in the same order just to the different characters. King Arthur rules both stories and give the decision of the punishment to the different girls to decide what is to be done to each knight. The question arises‚ what is it that women desire most? In each of the stories‚ the knight finds the answer on the last day of hunting. The knight in the Wife of Bath’s tale saves his
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either a negative or neutral opinion of the characters. However‚ as he describes the Wife of Bath‚ it is clear that Chaucer thinks differently of her than he does of the other characters in the General Prologue. Through his use of tone‚ imagery‚ and the topics of his discussion of her‚ Chaucer shows his approval of the Wife of Bath. Chaucer maintains a tone of admiration throughout his description of the Wife of Bath‚ focusing the majority of it describing her outward appearance and respectable traits
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When asked to compare Geoffrey Chaucer’s "Wife of Bath" character with either Madonna‚ Oprah‚ or Hilary Clinton‚ it’s obvious that Madonna stands out as almost a duplicate of her. Everything about the two could be lined up side by side‚ and we wouldn’t be able to guess which is which. Although the rights‚ power‚ and even image of women has changed over the years‚ we will always have the bold ones that stand out in any era. What do the Wife of Bath and Madonna have in common? In short‚ both
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hole between modernized woman and the woman from medieval times. In reality women have stayed close to their power and standings with men. The Wife of Bath woman is similar to modern day women mostly in terms of being self independent‚ they do not care about what others think‚ or the fact that in order to live they must be dependent of someone. The Wife of Bath tale shows us a good visual of what a modern woman wants. The modern woman and a woman in the medieval times are similar in many ways
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’Let four captains bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage‚ For he was likely‚ had he been put on‚ To have proved most royal’. At the end of Hamlet‚Fortinbras claims that had Hamlet been alive to rule as King of Denmark‚ he would have been a good king. Oedipus is King of Thebes in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannas‚ and Hamlet is (for most of the play heir to the Danish throne in Hamlet. With reference to their royal positions in Thebes and Denmark‚ compare and contrast the characters of Hamlet and
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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales “The wife of Bath” is one of the most captivating stories. This is primarily because the main character Wife of Bath or otherwise known as Alisoun is the complete opposite of how someone with a medieval mindset would think the role of a woman should be. In medieval times‚ women were viewed as being submissive to their husbands and kept most of their thoughts and ideas to themselves. The wife of bath defies the medieval mindset of who a woman should be by being
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