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The Wife (Canterbury Tales)
Title: The Wife (Canterbury Tales)
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1915 | Pages: 8.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Wife (Canterbury Tales)
The clerk tells his tale as a rebuttal to the "Wife of Bath's" story, each tale has an opposing view about which sex is more dominant than another. The woman of Bath is a woman that speaks her mind without being afraid of her image, which was very uncommon during this time. She is very knowledgeable about history and real life experiences. She uses the tale of "Metellius, that filthy lout"(270), and religious aspects to …showed first 75 words of 1915 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1915 total…women to suffer like she did. "Allow no such humility to nail your tongues"(355), he believes that they should speak out against those that treat them with little respect. The woman of Bath went into so much depth about her beliefs that it caused the clerk to stir up some mischief by telling a story opposite to her feministic views. However before concluding his tale he gives an envoy to restore his nobility to women.
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