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An Analysis Of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales": The Wife Of Bath's Tale
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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 ....
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....ng maiden; King Arthur, whom the ladies of the country beseech to
spare the life of the guilty horse soldier, offers us the typical conception of
knighthood.
In addition to acknowledging this dichotomy of ideas about chivalry,
Chaucer also brings into question the religious views of his time through this
tale. The loquacious Alison spends a good deal of the prologue espousing her
views regarding marriage and virginity, using her knowledge of the scriptures to
add strength to her arguments. Fo.... |
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