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 Tale is a modified version of a traditional Tale, however modified in a way that only Chaucer could. ... 5 Chaucer's rewriting of old stories is seen I feel in its best form when he con...

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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. ... 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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• Grade Level: High School