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The Wife (canterbury Tales)
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The clerk tells his tale as a rebuttal to the "Wife of Bath's" story, each tale has an opposing view about which sex is more dominant than another. The woman of Bath is a woman that speaks her mind without being afraid of her image, which was very uncommon during this time. She is very knowledgea ....
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....d her "you make the choice, yourself…whatever pleases you suffices me"(291). In turn the knight is rewarded, for his realization of what his wife and women truly desire, by his wife.
In the "Clerk's Tale" Griselda suffers through a great deal of emotional pain in her husband's test of loyalty and patience. The marquis knew his wife was loyal but "longed to expose her constancy to test"(333). He went to such an extent to take away her kids and discard her as a wife, all to discover if .... |
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