An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale
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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 pilgrim who narrates this tale, Alison, is a gap-toothed, partially
deaf seamstress and widow who has been married five times. She claims to
have great ....
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.... most familiar with today in which the knight was the consummate
righteous man, willing to sacrifice self for the worthy cause of the
afflicted and weak; on the other, we have the sad truth that the human
knight rarely lived up to this ideal(Patterson 170). In a work by Muriel
Bowden, Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, she explains that
the knights of the Middle Ages were "merely mounted soldiers, . . .
notorious" for their utter cruelty(18). The tale Bath's Wife weaves
expo ....
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