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A 6 page paper on the character of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The paper particularly centers around her feminist arguments justifying both her aggressiveness and her sexuality. Bibliography cites 4 sources.
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her third pilgrimage, and she has had five husbands. In the Prologue to her own tale she explains how much reproach she has endured for having been married so many
times. The remainder of the Wifes Prologue is devoted to a carefully-structured argument extolling the virtues of wedded bliss, culminating in the assertion that if men would just submit to
their wives in marriage, peace on earth would ensue, and everyone would live happily ever after. This paper will explore how well the Wife presents her case for a theological
justification for her rather assertive approach to sexuality. She has barely launched into her Prologue before shes begun to enumerate all the Biblical references to marriage that she knows in
an attempt to justify her own. Christ went to only one wedding (the wedding at Cana), and that is at least one reason shes been given for limiting the number
of times Christians should go to the altar in marriage. And then, she continues, Jesus reproved a Samaritan woman for having five husbands, adding that the one she had now
wasnt actually her husband at all. The Wife of Bath assumes that the reason the fifth man wasnt the Samaritan womans husband was that shed exceeded her quota. And if
this is the case, then the Wife of Bath must have exceeded hers as well; but precisely what is the quota? And why should there even be a quota if
God wants us to be fruitful and multiply? It is clear that the Wife of Bath has not only a ready tongue, but a brain above it. In the words
of Kenneth Kee, "No one doubts the intelligence of the Wife of Bath, and her conversation -- if that is the right word for her long monologue that reveals all
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