He sees the Medieval Church and its clergy as corrupt. ... Chaucer satirizes the Medieval Church. ... He is known to make even a shoeless woman give him money. ... He spent time seducing woman and promised women husbands in return for sexual favors. ... The Friar, the Summoner, and the Pardoner all play the roles of corrupt church officials. ...
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. Chaucer created a woman never seen before in English Literature. ... A woman married five times, some for pleasure but mostly for money. ... Alisouns tale is so wonderful because it effectively condemns a Knights rape of a young woman by insisting that the knight must submit to the authority of a woman by the end of the tale. ... In his manipulatio...
The characters that arise during the different tale, and those who tell the tales, play an important role in understanding the story, and the structure of the English people living in the 15th century. ... In her story there is a knight who assaulted a young woman. ... He searched in vain, until he came upon an old and ugly woman. ... Then, the old woman speaks, and tells the Queen about her arrangement with the knight, who tries to back out of it, but he has to marry the old woman. ... Women were thought very differently during the medieval times. ...
