Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the best writers of the earlier centuries and is right up there with Shakespeare, his Canterbury tales is one of his greatest works ever and the stories told in it are very innovative for his time. The one story I really enjoyed more was the wife of bath, the way she is a self-proclaimed authority of marriage since she has married more than once. She reminded me of the show “The real house wives of Orange County” and how the wife of bath has the same habits of marrying rich men but at the same time making claims about how marriage works. The real house wives are a modern counterpart to the wife of bath and I think if Chaucer was born in our own era he would have been very different and able to express some of his stories in a better or different way. …show more content…
The wife of bath then tells him to listen to her story and then decide what he must do in order to keep his wife in check. In the show the real housewives, many of the women claim the reason they have affairs and cheat on their husbands is because they never know what women want and whenever any of the women attempt to subdue them the men are either too lazy or too tired to do anything. Both of this scenarios seem to connect to one another where in the wife of bath the men is worried of being controlled by his own wife and in the real housewives the women try to control the men but cannot. Each one shows the relationship between the men and women, showing the reader or viewer how man cannot just simply understand the needs and wants of their