In this essay I will be examining the Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale and also the Knights Tale. ... From this we are presented with the Wife of Bath, who has accurately been described as one of Chaucer's most enduring and realistic characters, who as all the other pilgrims has a distinct trade. 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....

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