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Wife of Bath
Title: Wife of Bath
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1768 | Pages: 7.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Wife of Bath
Today most feminists commonly depict the Wife of Bath from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, as the ideal model for the feminist literary figure. However, contrary to that belief, I feel that both the Wife of Bath and Chaucer himself are just a well-disguised example of the antifeminist views of the fourteen century.
To some modern day feminist critics, like Carolyn Dinshaw, Chaucer was protofeminist, a writer ahead of his time, who used the medium …showed first 75 words of 1768 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1768 total…she rests comfortably into her maturity.
Is Chaucer and his Wife of Bath the same as all the other Antifeminist writing of the fourteenth century? My answer would be most probably, based mainly on the fact that Chaucer wrote from within a misogynistic society and he too readily demonstrates satire with his other pilgrims and negative portrayals of women in his tales to have used the Wife of Bath as an early attempt at feminism.
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