In the Canterbury tales, there were many people many people heading to Canterbury. There was one character, known as the "Wife of Bath" tells us a story that's different from everyone else's. She had five husbands and by telling tale she tells everyone how to maintain a good marriage. The wife of bath belief about marriage is that she thinks that a marriage is better when the woman is in control of the relationship.
The wife of bath beliefs that she is an expert on marriage. The Wife of Bath belives that a woman should have the control in the relationship and not the man. The Wife of Bath's "Prologue" she has had many husbands, but mostly favors her latest husband. Her fifth husband was a very abusive man, mostly because she would poke at him and mess with his belongings. To get control of her husband she would act dead after he would punch her in the face, so she would guilty him into giving her over the control
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In her tale there is this knight that raped a young maiden, the court found out and had sentenced him to death. However, he was given a second chance, if he could find the answer to what most woman desired he would live, and he only had one-year and one day to find out that answer. So, as the day came close that he had to give an answer he had not found it and had only one day left. On his way back to court he stumbled upon a group of dancing women and so he decided to ask them what woman desired most. Once he got closer there only stood one woman that was old and ugly, with her being the one there he decided to ask her, her response was that if she gave him the answer he would have to give her something in return. So that day at court the man was spared his life, with the answer being that woman wanted control of the relationship. As the old women was right she told the knight that he had to marry her, he had no other choice then to do