Essay Comparing The Wife Of Bath And Guinevere

The wife of Bath and Queen Guinevere both have different roles and expectations in the middle ages. The wife of bath was very forceful and also not very beautiful, Queen Guinevere was very beautiful as so everyone in the kingdom said. There is differences in both and there are some common things that they have in common besides they are both women. In these stories “Le Morte D’ Arthur” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”. These women have common and uncommon things when they are in different stories they are different from each other in many ways and also the same. The Wife of Bath wanted from her five husbands was she wanted sex, “only once should I be wed” in line thirteen and “Now you have five husbands” in line sixteen in the tale The Wife of Bath’s. She was very forceful and demanding to her husbands to make them marry the wife of bath. She is also very bright and her clothes are very colorful more than all of the characters because she is very good at making her own clothes. She is also the most interesting in the story and she was also wealthy with her money. The wife of bath is very demanding “I’ll have a husbands – I’m not guitting yet—and he will be my debtor and my slave”. She has control over her husbands “For I will have the power all my life over her body, I and never he.”

She has manners and she is royalty, “she was a maintainer of good knights; and ever she been large and free of her goods to all good knights, and the most bounteous lady of her gifts and her good grace, that ever I saw or heard speak of.” She likes and care for Sir Lancelot “I see and feel daily that thy love beginneth to slake, for thou hast no joy to be in my presences.” She was not faithful or loyal to her husband King Arthur because she was in love with Sir Launcelot and he was in love with Queen