The Canterbury Tales: Wife Of Bath
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In the Hollywood blockbuster Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone plays a devious,
manipulative, sex-driven woman who gets whatever she wants through her ploys for
control. Stone's portrayal of this character is unforgettable and makes the
movie. In book or film, the most memorable female characters are ....
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.... even if she
contradicts others, even Jesus. For in the Bible it states that Jesus “Spak in
repreve of the Samaritan:/‘Thou hast yhad five housbondes,' quod he,/‘And that
ilke man that now hath thee/Is nat thyn housbonde'” (P16). Despite this quote
from the holy writ, the Wife states that ther are no other arguments “Eek wel I
woot he [Jesus] saide that myn housbonde/Sholde lete fader and moder and take
me,/But of no nombre mencion made he [Jesus]--/Of bigamye or of octagamye” ....
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