In this essay I will be examining the Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale and also the Knights Tale. ... As it has been said that "the conception of The Canterbury Tales involved an inherent conflict, between the pilgrimage, with its goal the martyr's shrine in the cathedral at Canterbury, and the game of storytelling, with its purpose of entertaining the pilgrims throughout their journey"2. ... Her prologue is the genre of a confession, "the confessional device leapt to Chaucer's hand when he wished to reveal the naked inwardness of a character"4, as he did similarly in the Reeve, M...

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