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Wife Of Bath

Prakash Barot
February 16, 2001
English 205
Analysis of the Wife of Bath
In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Chaucer starts his prologue with the description of twenty-nine people who are going on a pilgrimage. Each person has a different personality that we can recognize from the way people behave today. He purposely makes The Wife of Bath stand out more compared to the other characters. "In the "General Prologue,' the wife of bath is intentionally described in an explicit way to provoke a shocking response" (Blackman 23). The way she dresses and her physical features are references to her past. By referring to her attitude on men and her physical appearance, Chaucer questions the Wife of Bath's behavior reguarding strick Christian rules. The Wife of Bath is a headstrong and a bold woman of her time. She often shows off her Sunday clothes with pride by wearing ten pounds of cloth woven by herself under her hat. Her clothing shows that she is not timid or shy and also shows......


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