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the Wife of Bath
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Have a little read: ... Rita Ziade Professor Wendy Fairey September 11, 2001 Women in general think that they want control. In fact, we thrive on the desire to have it. We feel as though without it, we're lost. The question is, if we've finally figured out what we want, why are we still so unhappy? Is it because we'll never be satisfied? Is this yet another thing we've manufactured in order to show that we can indeed enforce our strength on the world? Or have we fooled ourselves to believe this is what we want just because we're too afraid to admit that perhaps true happiness will never be achieved? In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the reader sees the Wife of Bath as an "accomplished" wife who understands what women want and knows just how to get it. However, after five husbands, she's still searching for something. Whether she wants another husband to conquer, as
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