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Essay Galaxy - An Analysis of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife of Bath's Tale
An Analysis of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife of Bath's Tale
In reading Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," I found that of
the Wife of Bath, including her prologue, to be the most thought-provoking.
The pilgrim who narrates this tale, Alison, is a gap-toothed, partially
deaf seamstress and widow who has been married five times. She claims to
have great experience in the ways of the heart, having a remedy for
whatever might ail it. Throughout her story, I was shocked, yet pleased to
encounter details which were rather uncharacteristic of the women of
Chaucer's time. It is these peculiarities of Alison's tale which I will
examine, looking not only at the chivalric and religious influences of this
medieval period, but also at how she would have been viewed in the context
of this society and by Chaucer himself.
Durin....
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