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In the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bathe is portrayed as a very masculine woman. ... The Wife of Bathe is also gap toothed, “Gat-toothed was she, smoothly for to saye” (line 470) and this is a sign of lecherousness. ... All of these things noted about the Wife of Bathe are atypical for a woman during the fourteenth century. In the wife’s own prologue, it is told that she is a woman who loves sex and had other affairs in addition to her five husbands, she is a bit deaf in one ear, is bold and this is evident in the way she wears red stockings and speaks very openly about sex. The qualities learned about the Wife of Bathe are facades for the real woman. ...
The wife of Bathe is a complex woman. ...
The Wife of Bathe is looking for true love again. ... She is a cruel wife to her first three husbands and even accuses the men of adultery, “Bar I stiffly mine olde housbandes on honed that thus they saiden in hir dronkenesse—and al was fals, but that I took witnesse On Janekin and on my nece also” (WBP lines 386-389). ... The Wife of Bathe typically exhibits her masculine qualities in her prologue as a shield to protect her. ...
The Wife of Bathe’s Tale (WBT) is about a fairy bride who seeks out and tests a mortal lover. ... Once again we see how the tale is similar to the wife’s own life.
Approximate Word count = 1284
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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