Wife of Bath

Title: Wife of Bath
Category: Literature / English | Words: 330 | Pages: 1.4 (approximately 235 words/page)

Wife of Bath

One of the most notable and unforgettable characters of medieval literature is Wife of Bath, a pilgrim on the journey from Southwark to Canterbury in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (CT). Chaucer includes and exploits individuals from all walks of medieval society; he uses irony and satire in varying types of narratives to show the problematic components of virtually each pilgrim. Unfortunately Chaucer delegated only two of his tales to be told by women—the …showed first 75 words of 330 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 330 total…which he lived. This feminist reading of Chaucer seeks to prove (through the means of historical information and studying the stereotyping and satire with other pilgrims) that Chaucer’s Wife of Bath represents not Chaucer’s act of feminism, but his alignment with her as the medieval stereotype of "La Vieilla," the old greedy sexually overbearing woman. But before we delve into the crux of this study, we should first introduce the character under consideration.

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