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A 3 page paper which examines the Wife of Bath and what Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales, may have thought regarding women. No additional sources.
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who tells a story. Through the years people have analyzed Chaucers perspective on women, speculating about it, in light of the fact that there is only one secular woman who
tells a tale. And, then there are the women in the stories told by the other pilgrims. With this in mind the following paper examines what may have been Chaucers
opinion of women and if it is important enough to even investigate. Women in Canterbury Tales by Chaucer In first looking at the stories, and the pilgrims it
could well be argued that most women would never embark on a pilgrimage on their own. Women did not necessarily travel alone, and especially without men. But, the Wife of
Bath is different because she is a very strong and independent woman and as such one could well argue that Chaucer appreciated a strong woman. The other women are women
of religion and thus it is a bit different as it involves cloistered women and not necessarily real life for women of the time.
In the Wife of Baths case she notes, in the beginning of her prologue, "To speak of woe that is in all marriage;/ For, masters, since I was
twelve years of age" (Chaucer; Wife of Bath Prologue 3-4). In this she is telling the reader that she has had a husband since she was 12, and in her
prologue one learns she has been married 5 times. Her giving marriage a less than thrilling description clearly indicates that Chaucer understood such things, thus he was giving credit to
women and what they often had to endure. This is perhaps further seen in the Wife of Baths tale which speaks of a woman who was raped, an act that
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