In the collection of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the Wife of Baths, the author portrays the women as being manipulative, can’t keep secret, and lustful. The Wife of Bath, Alisoun, has her own views of scriptures and God’s plan. She establishes herself as an authority on marriage. Alisoun was judged and criticized for her numerous marriages. She was a very powerful woman that had authority over people lives. The wife of bath uses textual authority to suit her purposes in the Canterbury Tales.
Even though, the character Alisoun was not the kind of woman Chaucer portrayed her as. Alisoun is a strong-minded and a self- proclaimed woman who is very confident in her own flesh. She believed that bad things were not accepted no matter what the cost is. She was determined for it to be that way while wanting men to obey her. “I grante thee
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The five men were permitted from God. Medieval women were usually judge by relationship(s) to men. She believes if she was to marry somebody else the better, she will be. In the prologue,
Jeffrey Chaucer describes her as a deaf, gap-toothed woman. She was a bold face and wears ten pounds of “coverchiefs” and a hat on her head. Her valuable stockings are was scarlet red and er shoes were soft and new. The wife of Bath was also known for being a talented cloth- maker. She is a skilled clothe maker of Ypes and Ghent.
Despite her appearance, the wife wants the obstacles of women sexuality to view differently to society. This support women to take control over their own bodies. Alisoun was often viewed as an independent voice. She challenges the male view on women’s relationships. Throughout the Wife of Baths, she defends a female advocate not by death, but by teaching the knight a lesson for his actions. She gave the Knight that did wrong a quest. His quest was to discover what women want most in the world and once it completed his life would be