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Canterbury Tales
Title: Canterbury Tales
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 670 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Canterbury Tales
The wife of Bath is a tough woman with a mind of her own and she is not afraid to speak it. She intimidates men and woman alike due to the strength she possesses. But instead of showing this as a positive characteristic, Chaucer makes her an ugly old woman. However, Chaucer, instead of portraying her low-social class as shameful, Chaucer showed that she is actually prudent and eloquent.
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…showed last 75 words of 670 total…It is considered non-feministic because the woman is giving in to the man's desire which goes against feministic beliefs. The Wife of Bath has a choice of not giving in to the man, but she decides to let the man have pleasure for his desire not hers, because she knew how much men enjoyed it when women obey them. This quotation obviously goes against feministic beliefs, leaving an unanswered contradiction about the Wife of Bath.
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