The Wife Of Bath is a resilient lady with powerful thoughts of her own and she's not afraid to speak her mind about others or certain situations. She mocks both men and women because she isn't intimidated by anyone. All of these outstanding qualities yet Chaucer makes her toothless and ugly. He also made her character have five different husbands and many affairs making bountiful amounts of men to become saddened. In part of the prologue, the Wife Of Bath speaks from a man's point of view about holy matrimony and women. Here they state: "She whispered to the water, near the ground,..." (“The Wife of Bath”, 119-124). These lines are meant to show that women can't hold secrets within them and can't be trusted but that is not the case because women know when it is right to tell a secret while men never share which comes back to hurt them in return. So Chaucer’s point here is invalide. The Wife Of Bath brings up many a valid point throughout the prologue but Chaucer abandons her opinion because of her social class and her ugliness, when in truth she is very wise. It is as if her intelligence is overshadowed greatly due to the fact that she has had many husbands and couldn't keep them so she is mainly seen as a whore. It is not only in three narrations that women are thought of as having an vile-like quality, that they always woo men and then take what they have. This is advertized in almost every one of the tales. Through Chaucer’s eyes women are regarded as sneaky, narcissistic, and fickle. He does a great job expressing this throughout the “Wife of Bath’s”
The Wife Of Bath is a resilient lady with powerful thoughts of her own and she's not afraid to speak her mind about others or certain situations. She mocks both men and women because she isn't intimidated by anyone. All of these outstanding qualities yet Chaucer makes her toothless and ugly. He also made her character have five different husbands and many affairs making bountiful amounts of men to become saddened. In part of the prologue, the Wife Of Bath speaks from a man's point of view about holy matrimony and women. Here they state: "She whispered to the water, near the ground,..." (“The Wife of Bath”, 119-124). These lines are meant to show that women can't hold secrets within them and can't be trusted but that is not the case because women know when it is right to tell a secret while men never share which comes back to hurt them in return. So Chaucer’s point here is invalide. The Wife Of Bath brings up many a valid point throughout the prologue but Chaucer abandons her opinion because of her social class and her ugliness, when in truth she is very wise. It is as if her intelligence is overshadowed greatly due to the fact that she has had many husbands and couldn't keep them so she is mainly seen as a whore. It is not only in three narrations that women are thought of as having an vile-like quality, that they always woo men and then take what they have. This is advertized in almost every one of the tales. Through Chaucer’s eyes women are regarded as sneaky, narcissistic, and fickle. He does a great job expressing this throughout the “Wife of Bath’s”