The Reeve's Tale Analysis

“A Yes Woman or a No Woman? Feminism in a Patriarchal work: Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Reeve’s Tale”
“The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender equality as much as women do.” –Sheryl Sandburg. The author of the Reeve’s Tale by Chaucer is mainly constructed of instrumentality, as well as the theme of feminist theory and what is mostly perceived from the text is the theme of revenge, and retaliation. Additionally, in this poem is the usage of violability, phallocentric theory, feminists’ criticism and irony to further the tension because of the emphasis on the students, and how they differ from the family as well as the Miller. The author also uses phallocentric focus throughout the poem to keep it as deeply entrenched as its genre--entertaining and strong topics. The poem also re-establishes Martha

According to the author, consent was not needed for Malenye or her mother. In the end they both enjoyed the intimacy so everything is well right? No. Not only is that ideology wrong, but it reinforces the patriarchal domination of men over women and creates bigger issues. Issues such as superiority, resilience, discrimination and biases. According to Tyson, this is destructive to both men and women because it creates these beliefs that are essentially unreal. When Chaucer wrote this poem, or the Reeve described it, they did not care for the women enough to think about the harm that they were executing. If Melody had “enjoyed,” the sex, as the author intended for her to, there should have been more dialogue, more questions, or even having Alayn taking an initiative to do more and assure the reader that it was what Melody had wanted. Instead we were told she had no time to say or do anything, and as a result was forced to have sex whether she wanted to or not. That is at heart