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This is a 5 page paper discussing Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale”. Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” are very much a part of one another in that the teller of the tale, the Wife, has become very well known to the reader in the autobiographical details told by her in the Prologue. Because of this, the Tale takes on an entirely different meaning than if it had been read alone. The reader learns about the teller in the Prologue in that she is a well experienced woman having been married five times and although she realizes the limitations placed on women in her time, she is eternally hopeful that she will get what all women want, which is explained through the fairy-tale like fictional “Tale”. The sovereignty and love the old woman in the tale eventually gets from her young husband the knight changes the old woman into a beautiful young maiden and they live happily ever after; a prayer the Wife, the teller, wishes for herself in seeking her next husband.
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of one another in that the teller of the tale, the Wife, has become very well known to the reader in the autobiographical details told by her in the Prologue.
Because of this, the Tale takes on an entirely different meaning than if it had been read alone. The reader learns about the teller in the Prologue in that she
is a well experienced woman having been married five times and although she realizes the limitations placed on women in her time, she is eternally hopeful that she will get
what all women want, which is explained through the fairy-tale like fictional "Tale". The sovereignty and love the old woman in the tale eventually gets from her young husband the
knight changes the old woman into a beautiful young maiden and they live happily ever after; a prayer the Wife, the teller, wishes for herself in seeking her next husband.
Geoffrey Chaucer (~1343-1400) began his most celebrated work "The Canterbury Tales" in 1386 and unfortunately only completed 22 tales in the fourteen years
before his death. His original plan it seems was to complete 120 stories "two for each pilgrim to tell on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way
back" (Norton 85). The Tales themselves have a General Prologue and also a Prologue which precedes each individual tale. The Prologue from each tale tells a great deal about the
teller of the tale and the Prologue of the "Wife of Baths Tale" is no different. "The Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale" is often placed differently throughout many versions
of the Canterbury Tales which have been published but ultimately it is always placed as the first of a group of seven called the "Marriage Group" but most critics which
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