Answer:
In the general prologue, Chaucer explains the Wife of Bath’s characteristics. He says, “She knew how to laugh and joke in the company, and all the remedies of love, for her skill was great in that old game”.
Although Chaucer uses “knew” in the quote, it does not mean that the Wife of Bath is the expert on love. Her marriages were shams and she only loved her fifth husband, who happened to beat her. She is not really an expert at love at all, more of an enthusiast. She likes the idea of being in love and being able to control the men she marries.
She cannot control all of the men she marries, but she tries with all her being. The first three were simple to have power over, but the last two were a little more challenging.
Explanation:
In the Wife of Bath’s tale’s prologue, the Wife of Bath is talking to the party and says, “Just as worms destroy a tree, you say, so a wife destroys her husbands, and any man tied to a wife know...
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...is day and age both of these women would be very good leaders because they know what they want and how to get it. They would be able to be leaders of companies or even the president. In their time, they were supposed to take orders from men and do what they were told without objections. These two women did not feel that was how women should behave and did all they could do act otherwise. They did what they could to wrestle power from the men and be on top and in the lead. Chaucer knew how to give life to these women and was smart for making them the wearer of the pants, because not many people saw it that way back then. These women are the embodiment of “strong, independent women” and could make any man do what she wishes in a blink of an eye.
