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A 5 page paper which examines the power of women in each tale, to determine if they can be regarded as feminist works. No additional sources are used.
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a contention, his depiction of women in his classic collection of stories, The Canterbury Tales, written in the late fourteenth century, may well qualify as one of the earliest feminist
works. Two stories in particular, "The Wife of Baths Prologue" and "The Wife of Baths Tale," consider the power of women, a topic seldom, if ever pondered in print
up to that time, and especially radical for a male author to tackle. Although intentionally satirical in tone, Chaucers parody of gender stereotypes may not have changed Medieval societys
perceptions of women, but these two stories reflect his championing of the cause of strong female. "The Prologue" is the story of Dame Alice, the often-married woman who gleefully shared
her passion for men, which also revealed her contempt for them. Well-aware of the stereotype that women were regarded as passive and inferior, Dame Alice would play the game
demanded by the patriarchy, if it netted her what she wanted. Dame Alice was far more clever than any of her husbands, and always managed to find a way
to stay one step ahead of them. The cunning Dame married her first three husbands to secure her social and financial position. As she explained, "In wifehood I
will use my instrument / As freely as my Maker has it sent. / If I be niggardly, God give me sorrow! / My husband he shall have it, eve
and morrow, / When hes pleased to come forth and pay his debt. Ill not delay, a husband I will get / Who shall be both my debtor and
my thrall / And have his tribulations therewithal / Upon his flesh, the while I am his wife. I have the power during all my life / Over his own
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