Chaucer's masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, reflects a very opinionated view of manners and the behaviors of medieval women. Chaucer portrays two extremes of female conduct during this period through the characters of the Prioress and the Wife of Bath. ... That he is doing so to educate women through his tale that there are times that women should be radical feminist and there are times one should not be. ... We can see that the Parson and the Miller both representing the peasantry are also very opposite characters. ... Even though we can see that none of the characters are perfectly bad...

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