Wife of beth
Wife of bethThe Wife of Bath’s Prologue contains the story of a woman that had a great experience with men and married life. She is not a typical wife of her times, but rather she represents a very masculine female. The Wife of Bath is an incredibly influential and dynamic individual, while the concept of the ideal woman at the time was to be submissive and powerless. The Wife of Bath tells the pilgrims that she has always followed her appetite, at a time when ideally women left the initiative to men. She has no children, or at least she does not mention them in her prologue and it is very uncommon for married woman at that time.
Wife of Bath shows that marriage is not as beneficial as men expect, at least with her. She defeats three of her much older husbands in argument, starting according to her at age twelve; she leads three of her husbands to give her money, lands and power before letting them to be intimate with her. In addition, she makes her husbands work hard in bed to please her. After she has all...
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