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    hole between modernized woman and the woman from medieval times. In reality women have stayed close to their power and standings with men. The Wife of Bath woman is similar to modern day women mostly in terms of being self independent‚ they do not care about what others think‚ or the fact that in order to live they must be dependent of someone. The Wife of Bath tale shows us a good visual of what a modern woman wants. The modern woman and a woman in the medieval times are similar in many ways

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    In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales “The wife of Bath” is one of the most captivating stories. This is primarily because the main character Wife of Bath or otherwise known as Alisoun is the complete opposite of how someone with a medieval mindset would think the role of a woman should be. In medieval times‚ women were viewed as being submissive to their husbands and kept most of their thoughts and ideas to themselves. The wife of bath defies the medieval mindset of who a woman should be by being

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    Texts & Contexts‚ Section D03 The Wife of Bath Would Have Won the Contest In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales‚ the host decides to come up with a story telling contest to help shorten the pilgrim’s journey to Canterbury. He states that the person who tells the most “instructive and amusing” tale will have supper at the cost of all the other pilgrims. Because Chaucer does not finish all the tales‚ there is no winner. However‚ the story that stands out the most and meets the criteria in

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    have a most extreme hard choice to make. For the criteria I have made only one of these two stories have proven themselves better than the other. The Choosing of which one is the only problem I had. The Wife of Bath’s And the Pardoner’s Tale were so close on a string‚ it had my mind spinning. The Wife of Bath’s Tale is the obvious choice for me‚ for I fear that The Pardoner’s Tale was short of the criteria by one thing‚ good morality. The Wife’s tale meets my criteria over the Pardoner’s tale for three

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    Want a Wife”‚ Judy Brady uses irony to explain why she would want a wife. Brady lists multiple jobs and tasks that an ideal wife does and is expected to do. Along with irony‚ the author uses sarcasm and repetition to emphasize what a wife does for her husband‚ as well as her children. I believe the author’s tone changes from pleasant to sarcastic by stating “If‚ by chance‚ I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have‚ I want the liberty to replace my present wife with

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    The Wife of Bath - The Battle of the Sexes How far do you agree that in the battle of the sexes it is the wife of Bath who has the most effictive weapons and armour? The Wife sees the relationship between men and women as a battle in which it is crucial to gain the upper hand‚ ’Oon of us two must bowen‚ douteless’ Her armour was indeed necessary‚ as in Medieval England‚ women definitley were second class citizens who were viewed as goods and chattels‚ with no financial independence. They

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    |The Bath – Janet Frame | | | | | |The story centres on the routines of an old woman’s life and the | | |annual preparation for‚ and visit to‚ the

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    The Wife of Bath as neither a Feminist nor Antifeminist character The wife of bath‚ a character in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ has consistently been labeled as either a feminist or an antifeminist. Being to able to label her is not as easy as it first appears however. She displays behavior and speech at various times throughout her prologue and story that when taken by itself or out of context could lead a reader to make such a judgment‚ but when everything she mentions and uses

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    The idea of respect and control in marriage in The Wife of Bath prologue and The Book of Margery Kempe. (Rough Draft) The lives of medieval women figures such as Wife of Bath and Margery Kempe gives us a great knowledge about the marriage life in that time. These women gave us an insight in their lives and we were able to know more about their marriages and how they were the same yet very different as we will further see. The Wife of Bath‚ a strong woman who have been married five times tell

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    narrowed it down to two that I thought was a cut above the rest. I judged the tales based on its predictability and its overall impact on our moralities. Ultimately I came to the decision between The Wife of Bath’s Tale and The Franklin’s Tale. Compare to the other tales‚ not only do the Franklin’s and the Wife of Bath’s tale have an unexpected twist at the end‚ but also both tales offer exceptionally deep impressions that alter my perspective on marriage. Marriage is an important aspect of our

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