Today most feminists commonly depict the Wife of Bath from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as the ideal model for the feminist literary figure. ... His parody of the "Old Woman's" speech exemplifies the same content, which are her life and the wiles of women. ... 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. ... (69) In The Wife of Bath's Tale itself Chaucer continues to make fun of women with the question "what it is most desire". ... I nil leve no tales: I knowe you for a ...

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