The Wife of Bath's Tale is critiquing love. This is ironic because the Wife of Bath's Prologue addresses how she married five times, but only once for love. This tale, however, talks about love in a sense that it is hard, but at the end it is happy and worth it. Technically, the prologue ends happy as well, but she is deaf in one ear as a result of the only man she married for love. Both of these tales also address violence against women, possibly suggesting men play an unfair role in love. The women are loyal, but in return get beat.
The Wife of Bath's Tale is one of the few tales that Chaucer chooses to retell that does not depict deceit or death or trickery among any character. I think Chaucer choose this tale because he wanted to show that honesty, truth and doing the right thing and sticking to your word, like the knight did in the tale, will be beneficial in the end and good things will happen to you.
The message in this tale is that beauty lies within, the Wife is saying that she believes men have the ability to change which is critiqued because the man may have just known what she wanted him to say. The Wife's message is that women should be obeyed and respected as she believes she taught the man a lesson.
Going off of Molly, the Wife believes that the experience is the greatest authority and since she has been married 5 times she has the authority. This does not connect though to later in the story, how she gives men any pleasure they want whenever they want. Giving the man the desire goes against feministic beliefs. I think Chaucer wanted to show, that in the end happiness can come to you and everything will be worth it.
The Wife of Bath's Tale is critiquing love. This is ironic because the Wife of Bath's Prologue addresses how she married five times, but only once for love. This tale, however, talks about love in a sense that it is hard, but at the end it is happy and worth it. Technically, the prologue ends happy as well, but she is deaf in one ear as a result of the only man she married for love. Both of these tales also address violence against women, possibly suggesting men play an unfair role in love. The women are loyal, but in return get beat.
ReplyDeleteThe Wife of Bath's Tale is one of the few tales that Chaucer chooses to retell that does not depict deceit or death or trickery among any character. I think Chaucer choose this tale because he wanted to show that honesty, truth and doing the right thing and sticking to your word, like the knight did in the tale, will be beneficial in the end and good things will happen to you.
ReplyDeleteThe message in this tale is that beauty lies within, the Wife is saying that she believes men have the ability to change which is critiqued because the man may have just known what she wanted him to say. The Wife's message is that women should be obeyed and respected as she believes she taught the man a lesson.
ReplyDeleteGoing off of Molly, the Wife believes that the experience is the greatest authority and since she has been married 5 times she has the authority. This does not connect though to later in the story, how she gives men any pleasure they want whenever they want. Giving the man the desire goes against feministic beliefs. I think Chaucer wanted to show, that in the end happiness can come to you and everything will be worth it.
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