The concept of “Women Behaving Badly” must vary according to time period, culture, gender and authorial purpose. Discuss in relation to Lysistrata and Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale. Through the texts Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, and the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, by Chaucer, there is the underlying concept of “Women Behaving Badly”, the concept of women acting out of place in society. The concept of women behaving badly is appropriated and varied …showed first 75 words of 1343 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1343 total…of “Women Behaving Badly” must vary according to time period, culture, gender and authorial purpose. The audience and the time period, culture, and gender that influences them determines how they translate and relate to the story, and how they see the women in it as behaving badly. The authorial purpose of the author also determines how the women who is behaving badly is portrayed to the audience. Any eternal standards are also subject to variation.