The anti-antifeminist Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales Written during the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales, by portraying the Christian pilgrimage, represents the medieval lives of noble and lower class. ... Rich in the worldly wisdom, therefore, he on the one hand satirizes the wickedness and hypocrisy of humanity by means of the presentation of The Canterbury Tales. ... A delicate female gaze from him, seemingly, is held to explore the inner conflict battling inside his female characters. ... A gorgeous, innocent, and submissive female character is therefore the reward for th...

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In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales1, participants of a pilgrimage to Canterbury tell tales to entertain each other, revealing many aspects of medieval society. ... Each of the stories in The Canterbury Tales are to be told with the utmost accuracy, suggesting Chaucer's literacy. ?... With 30 pilgrims telling two tales each on their passage to Canterbury and two tales each on the return home, that totals to over a hundred tales. ... Utilizing voice to build the speaker's character, Chaucer reveals positive bias as he depicts his accompanying party. ... The next seve...

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Of all the narratives listed in The Canterbury Tales, the characters described in the Wife of Bath's story stand out among the others, and it is interesting to examine this tale while also comparing it to the current state of the women's rights movement. ... In this tale, the Wife of Bath and several others journey toward Canterbury, telling stories to one another to pass the time along the way. ... Because of the era this story was written in and the predominantly male-dominated society the characters were sure to have live amongst, it is clear that the Wife of Bath existed way ahea...

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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. ... In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses a style of writing that tends to make fun of and point out the inner controversy of each pilgrim. ... (Diamond 69) However, when we talk about someone like this, we view a fictional character as if she might be real. ... Dooth as you list: I am here at youre wille... I nil leve no tales: I knowe you for a trewe wif, dame Alis." ...

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This is evident in Top Girls, where Marlene has thrown a dinner party to celebrate her promotion and has invited Isabella Bird (1831-1904), Lady Nijo (b.1258), Dull Gret (1562), Pope Joan (854-856) and Griselda (Canterbury Tales). ... The main character of the play, Dr Heidi Holland, a savant art history professor at Columbia University, discusses the paintings of great female artists like Sofonisba Anguissola, Clara Peeters, Lily Martin Spencer with her class. ... "Wasserstein herself as well as her main character, Heidi Holland, eschew a feminist identity in difference to a humanist one...

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