Women in Canterbury Tales

Oliver Thompson English 4 with Mr. Edson November 3, 2000 Women in the Canterbury Tales Throughout the Canterbury Tales women are treated as objects. In the "Knight's Tale" a beautiful maiden is sought after by two men, men willing to do whatever it takes to have her. The carpenter in the "Miller's Tale" married a young and beautiful women, and she is pursued by two men because of her beauty. Two students exact revenge upon a miller in …

…rather than human beings. In all four tales women did not hold jobs, were not educated or upstanding members of society, and did not appear to have minds of their own. The women acquiesced to the will of the men in the stories, their thoughts and views deemed unimportant by the men in society. It is not until the "Wife of Bath's Tale" that we see a man recognizing the importance of an intelligent wife.