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How Does Chaucer Present The Wife Of Bath As A Woman Of Her Time?
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... How Does Chaucer Present The Wife Of Bath As A Woman Of Her Time? Women were very much perceived as second-class citizens in the fourteenth century, they were rarely educated and had little status in society. As the Wife of Bath's Prologue is spoken by woman of exceeding experience with husbands, with strong opinions on how married life should be conducted, but is written by a man it is natural to look at how Chaucer presents the Wife Of Bath. This is especially so as many of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales condemn themselves out of their own mouth. Are we to agree with the views that the Wife of Bath puts forward so strongly, or does Chaucer present her as a caricature of every negative quality women are traditionally guilty of? A great deal of the Wife's Prologue is spent in her narration of the tirades that she subjected her
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