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Chaucer Tales
Chaucer included "The Wife of Bath" for many reasons. First and most obvious is for her humor. Alisoun, the wife of Bath, was very lively, colorful, and sometimes rather dirty. Chaucer not only used her humor to help tell the story but also even to help set up the other characters and their stories, such as the friar and the pardoner. Chaucer wanted to portray women differently than they were viewed in his era. He wanted women to be seen as intelligent, powerful, and dominant, not only in everyday affairs and relationships but sexually as well. Chaucer also wanted to discuss marriage, and how people of his time thought the sacrament should be sacred. Also he wanted to discuss domestic violence, maybe so men would view their wives differently. He wanted men to see that not always arguing, yet giving women mastery of them was easiest and best for all, or at least according to the wife of Bath.
Chaucer was very particular for all the characters but especially......

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