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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