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Wife Of Bath Prologue Essay

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After reading the Prologue and Tale for the Wife of Bath, the conclusion that has been drawn is that the chapter should be censored because of the graphic contents. The wife from Bath goes into detail about marriage and sex that relates to her life and the bible. Being as that, the wife from Bath is a religious woman who follows the contexts of the Bible with her daily and sexual life; as what she should do and what she should not do. She tells the people who she is traveling with about what it is like being married to five different men and how a woman should keep control over their husbands. By just listening to what the Wife from Bath has to say you can con to the understanding that she uses her husband to the best of her ability before …show more content…

However, the Bible never supported the statement that a person should be married once and once only. It’s not wrong for a person to move on after a husband has pasted away and its also not wrong for a wife to find pleasure in their husbands. “People can read and reread the Bible over and over but I know one thing for sure, and that’s that god commanded us to increase and multiply. That nice bit of scripture I can understand quite well. And I also know that he instructed my husbands to leave their mothers and fathers and take care of me as their wife. He never said, though, how many men I could marry over the course of my life, so why do people look down on marrying more than once —or eight time for that matter— as much as they do?” (Chaucer 225). There is nothing in the Bible that says a woman can be married to more than one gentle men and God welcomes more children because he encourages woman to multiply and produce more even if they don’t produce with the same husband. God had given men and woman a command to multiply and increase the number of people, yet some of God’s followers are telling the people not to increase and multiply with their husbands and wife. The command that God gave his people was most certainly a sexual command that only a man and woman can fulfill after marriage without making a

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