Miller's Tale Feminist Analysis

Since the beginning of British literature women were not seemed as hero nor as the one you go to when you were in trouble. Instead it was more likely for them to be the cause of all of your problems instead .For example in the bible it was believed women were the roots of all evil because of Eve in the bible of the verse Genesis. The climax of the story is that Eve convinced Adam to eat from the forbidden fruit. When he did eat the fruit god was so furious he kicked the two out of the Garden of Eden. Although it was clearly says in the bible that it wasn’t Eve’s fault instead it was the serpent (Pretorius, M. (2011).), which was god 's own mistake in itself. Many scholars and Christian blame Eve for the fault of man. Saying she was the temptress that lure Adam out of paradise. What society has taught us is that a woman 's place was to be by the side of her husband. If that was not the case they were seen as evil or against the laws of

For further examination look at Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tale’s and his more ironic/satirical outlook on women. One part is the Miller’s tale, which ironically has more feminist theme, and then Chaucer might have hoped for. For example instead of the women (Alison) being the brunt of the joke it was her husband (John) and a man who couldn 't take no for an answer (Absolon). Absolon was so persistent that not only did he end up kissing Alison’s eres he also was farted on by her lover. What make this story have feministic theme is how Alison made it be known she had a right of who she can allow to touch her body. As well as if you keep persisting even though the women has express disinterest you can kiss her gluteus maximus .The ending of feminist ideology ends with the Wife of Bath. In which a knight could rape a woman and get a beautiful obedient wife in the end. Also the dilemma of the wife who even said the only good marriages was when she made her husbands submissive. While her favorite marriage was when her husband