In doing so the Wife of Bath inverts the order of the normal narrative, and the common social order as women in medieval literature tended to only feature in tales in very stereotypical roles; as a beautiful lady, a love interest or an old wife. ... As Charles Owen says, "There is no such story as this in all medieval literature; no such gallery of finished portraits, nor...

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In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer includes and exploits individuals from all walks of medieval society. He uses irony and satire in varying types of narratives to reveal the problematic components of virtually each pilgrim. Unfortunately Chaucer delegated only two of his tales to be told by women, the t...

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