The Wife Of Bath's Tale Patriarchy Essay

Critique of Chaucer’s Attack on the Patriarchy and Class Discrimination
(An Understanding of Chaucer’s Attack on the Patriarchy and Class Discrimination) In the day of Geoffrey Chaucer, there was a set philosophy known as the Patriarchy. Also, there was a division of the classes, such as: the poor people, who couldn’t afford a simple meal; the middle class, who had a way of making ends meet, but only to a certain extent, and the upper lords and kings, who were seen as better than the people previously stated. Again, in “Canterbury Tales,” Chaucer created a woman, known as the wife of bath, who explicates the details about her own life, along with a long winded story. Firstly, within the story she relays, the knight must marry an elder woman, for she had saved his life. The woman hates the idea of the knight being so arrogant about his stature, and she attacks his nobility. Also, the wife of bath critiques the way the knight profiles the woman by her poverty. Lastly, the old woman has a brief
Firstly, he uses the old woman in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” to break down the knight, by attacking his noble stature. Secondly, again Chaucer uses the old woman to degrade the knight by using her poverty, and his riches, against him. Lastly, the old woman critiques the knight about how poorly his treatment of her is, because of her age, and his neglect towards her for her being “hideous.” Chaucer created a very intricate system while writing “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” because of his usage of the wife of bath, who speaks the words of the old woman in the tale, to attack the patriarchy. He knew that if the attack came directly for him, he would be branded an atheist, for his challenge of Aristotle’s theory of the patriarchy, which is seen as normality. By using the three mouthpieces, he avoided the danger of being attacked himself, while still getting his point