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A 3 page paper which summarizes and analyzes the Shipman’s Tale in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The paper then compares and contrasts elements of the Shipman’s Tale with the Wife of Bath’s Tale. No additional sources cited.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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Through his tales the reader learns about the relationships between men and women, the notion of chivalry, humor through relationships, love, death and many other realities. The following paper summarizes
and analyzes the Shipmans Tale and then compares and contrasts it to the Wife of Baths Tale. Canterbury Tales: The Shipman and the Wife of Bath The Shipmans
Tale is the tale of a merchant and his wife, a greedy and vain woman who loves to spend money and look pretty. The merchant essentially gets himself in debt
trying to feed her hunger for material goods and beauty and ultimately must take in boarders. At one point he takes in a man who is supposedly a monk. The
monk confronts the wife and asks what is wrong wherein she tells him that she owes her husband money. The monk agrees to help her and they kiss to seal
the deal. The monk tells the merchant, just before the merchant is leaving for a trip, that he needs money to buy cattle. The merchant gives him this money
and the monk in turn gives the money to the merchants wife so she can pay her husband back. But, in payment for the money she sleeps with him, thus
acting as a prostitute. When the merchant comes home and finds out she got the money from the monk, without knowing she slept with the monk, he reprimands her and
she promises to pay him back with sex, as perhaps any real wife of the time was expected to do: "Ye shall my jolly body have to wed; By God,
I will not pay you but in bed" (Chaucer). The Shipmans Tale is a tale wherein no individual seems to be punished
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