The Canterbury Tales consists of a narrative Prologue, which introduces the characters and also of a group of tales, told by each of the pilgrims. ... In the Prologue, the narrator offers a description of each character that is embarking on the pilgrimage to Canterbury. ... The Wife of Bath is perhaps the most fully realized character in the Canterbury Tales. ... She tells a story from a distant time, when King Arthur ruled the nation. ... The knight comes across as a mindless fellow who has no respect for other people, which is entirely opposite from the description of the knight in the P...

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Along with strong feminist messages in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" also come out anti-feminism ideals about keeping women in a certain role, causing a lengthy and intelligent debate upon what Chaucer really meant. Anti- Feminism is apparent in both the "Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "The Nun's Priest's Tales". ... Despite receiving vicious beatings from her husband that she says will leave her bruised for the rest of her life she will stay with him and wishes no harm against him despite all the harm by him against her. In The Wife of Bath's Tales, the assumed "p...

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(Based on The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.) In the beginning of the Wife of Bath's Prologue, she expresses that marriage, based on all of her experience, is a misery and a woe. ... She benefited from their wealth and property when they died, but she did not seem to truly love any of them. ...

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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. In the beginning, the narratives are deliberately described in a vulgar and explicit manner in order to provoke and instigate a shocking response from the contemporaneous audience, who-at the...

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In reading Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," I found that of the Wife of Bath, including her prologue, to be the most thought-provoking. ... The tale Bath's Wife weaves exposes that Chaucer was aware of both forms of the medieval soldier. Where as his knowledge that knights were often far from perfect is evidenced in the beginning of Alison's tale where the "lusty" soldier rapes a young maiden; King Arthur, whom the ladies of the country beseech to spare the life of the guilty horse soldier, offers us the typical conception of knighthood. ... The loquacious Aliso...

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Although the stories in the Canterbury tales are fictional, they represent many social issues and provide an intimate view of life in Medieval Europe. ... Throughout the Wife of Bath's Tale and Prologue we as readers acknowledge the fact that this character Chaucer has created is not like the average woman of her time. ... Her independent behaviour and individual beliefs undoubtedly make her stand out from the rest. ... The Wife of Bath opens this passage with "Now, sire, now wol I telle forth my tale" She is introducing her tale in a classic story-telling manner. ... From this, some can ...

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