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This 5 page paper discusses the possibility that the prologue is really 'the tale' in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Examples, quotes given. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Canterbury, most have their favorite characters. Of those characters, most often selected as a favorite is the Wife of Baths Tale. However, for those truly wanting to understand the Wife
of Baths Tale, the Prologue, it would seem, holds the key, and may in fact be more the tale than the tale itself. The Chaucer Review, author, Barbara Gottfried,
states, in reference to the Wife of Baths tale (prologue) that this introduction to the tale comprehends the transmutative power of the Wife of Baths prologue, and the veiled yet
crucial fact of the ambivalence of her feelings about love, marriage, husbands, the images of women she confronts, and the most deep rooted valued of the society in which she
lives"(Gottfried, 202). The prologue to the tale is long and it chronicles the fact that the Wife of Bath has been a wife several times over. She seems frustrated with
the men that cannot handle her frank honesty and rough ways. Her commentary is Chaucers statement, as well, about love. True love cannot be corrupted by greed or other base
emotions. In short, he speaks of the redemptive and restorative power of true love through the bawdy Wife of Bath(Librarius). The first point that the Wife of Bath makes, and
on which Gottfried comments, is that the wife is responding to a debate that had been going on for centuries regarding the place of women in the universe and society.
The clergy she criticizes focused on the subordinate place of women in society. Biblical precedents on remarriage, sexual gratification, celibacy, and adherence to the perfect state of virginity"(Gottfried, 205).
Ms. Gottfried makes her main argument for the article, stating that in having her turn at telling a tale, in fact gains the perfect
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