The Wife Of Bath's Tale Essay

There are many morals and ethical views from The Canterbury Tales that are still very much applicable to the world today. One such moral that is still valid in today’s world comes from the Wife of Bath’s tale. During her tale a similar moral kept on showing, and this was how women desired “sovereignty” over men. From the prologue it was definite that the wife of bath had experience with relation because she was married five times and she, out of all the other pilgrims, knew what made a women the most happiest. Handing a woman the dominance in a relationship would be in the best interest of the man and the relationship. Wife of Bath also had some religious views that are valid today. She believed that she had the right to marry as many time
An example of his shrewdness is that he would sell people that fake artifacts such as bones from the old ages, Jesus’s time period. He stated in his prologue,”My exclusive purpose is to win and not at all to castigate their sin...And thus I preach against the very vice I make my living out of- avarice”(261). His reason to why he sells pardons and fake relics is because he is very greedy. The moral that greed is the root of all evil still applies today because people who have greed they often are willing to anything to feed their greed, even if that requires them to rip people off. An example of a man who was greedy and tricked people into buying stocks was Jordan Belfort. He scammed people into giving him millions of dollars. Just like the pardoner this man’s root of evil was greed, he did these acts due to the fact that he loved money. The pardoner also preaches other vices people should avoid such as drinking and gambling, but he is again, hypocritical because he drinks at bars. Even though the pardoner’s ethics contradict his morals, his morals are still applicable in the world