Along with all of these strong feminist messages also come out anti-feminism ideals about keeping women in a certain role, causing a lengthy and intelligent debate upon what Chaucer really meant. ... All of the above quotations and examples appear to show the Wife of Bath as a great and leading woman with ideas and ideals that came well after her time. ... The Wife goes on to tell about her fourth husband. ... For example speaking of her fifth husband: "God grant his soul may never get to Hell! ... Her fifth husband is a great example of showing how she no longer is able to control men. ...

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The narrator describes him as having four main qualities: his love of ideals, his impressive military career, his meek, gentle manor, and finally, his dress. ... Not only has she seen many lands, she has lived with five husbands. ... She gained control over all her husbands so they won't make use of her. ... She does not seek an equal partnership with a husband. ... His story is a romance that contains a sense of humor and courage, all the things described as ideals he held. ...

• Word Count: 1605
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• Grade Level: High School

Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. ... This husband hit her and she also made him feel guilty for his actions. ... They plot to get rid of her husband so they can be happy together. ... The Clerk's Tale tells about a woman who is abused by her husband. ... She gets her children and her husband back in the end. ...

• Word Count: 1539
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This form of bait and switch still grasps to the Wife of Bath's ideals and leads the reader to expect more of the same. ... She leaves the audience with the closing moral that all relationships should be condemned unless a woman has sovereignty over her husband. ... She then divulges into her story about Midas's wife being so incapable of keeping her husband's deformity between them that she has to bellow the secret into a mire. ... The idea has been proposed that this story is simply told to presents new ideals of sovereignty as the great equalizer in relationships and that ...

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This form of bait and switch still grasps to the Wife of Bath's ideals and leads the reader to expect more of the same. ... She leaves the audience with the closing moral that all relationships should be condemned unless a woman has sovereignty over her husband. ... She then divulges into her story about Midas's wife being so incapable of keeping her husband's deformity between them that she has to bellow the secret into a mire. ... The idea has been proposed that this story is simply told to presents new ideals of sovereignty as the great equalizer in relationships and that ...

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Today most feminists commonly depict the Wife of Bath from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as the ideal model for the feminist literary figure. ... She wants to be seen as a woman who is granted freedom and liberty from her husband, and not as one that has to manipulate in order to get it. ... She uses her body and her husband's money against her them to get what she wants. After the Wife struggles with her fifth husband Jankyn, she gains the "maistrie" that she has fought to acquire, but she does not utilize it. ... So by gaining the power and not using it the Wife becomes...

• Word Count: 1773
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Of her life we are told that (apart from "oother compaignye in youthe") she has had five husbands. ... This is rather surprising, but seems less so when we later learn that three of the husbands were old men. ... And, since we have a Molly-Bloom-like story of husbands and marriages, could we make another opposition, and say that Prioress symbolizes an ideal versus the real woman, deliberately called Wife of Bath? ...

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What is the Good Life? Living a good life is a view that has changed through ages. What is really a good life has been the question that has been tossed around. What makes the good life? Is it happiness? Maybe it is spiritual love and closeness. It could be on possession. A good life for right now...

• Word Count: 2038
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School