Answer the same questions in the knight chart on the Wife of bath chart. For the characterization question, you're answering what does Chaucer say is good or bad about the Wife Of Bath. Offer two details to support the characterization. For Chaucers attitude towards the Wife of Bath (does he like or dislike the pilgrim? Explain why!
Answer the same questions in the knight chart on the Wife of bath chart. For the characterization question, you're answering what does Chaucer say is good or bad about the Wife Of Bath. Offer two details to support the characterization. For Chaucers attitude towards the Wife of Bath (does he like or dislike the pilgrim? Explain why!)
A worthy woman from beside Bath city
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Was with us, somewhat deaf, which was a pity.
In making cloth she showed so great a bent
She bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent.
In all the parish not a dame dared stir
Towards the altar steps in front of her,
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And if indeed they did,so wrath was she
As to be quite put out of charity.
Her kerchiefs were of finely woven ground; I dared have sworn they weighed a good ten pounds,
The ones she wore on Sunday, on her head.
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Her hose were of the finest scarlet red
And gartered tight; her shoes were soft and new
Bold was her face, handsome, and red in hue
A worthy woman all her life, what's more
She'd had five husbands, all at the church door,
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Apart from other company in youth
No need just now to speak of that, forsooth.
And she had thrice been to Jerusalem,
Seen many strange rivers and passed over them;
She'd been to Rome and also to Boulogne,
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St.James of Compostella and Cologne,
And she was skilled in wandering by the way.
She had gap teeth, set widely, truth to say.
Easily on an ambling horse, she sat
Well wimpled up, and on her head a hat
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As broad as is a buckler or a shield;
She had a flowing mantle that concealed
Large hips, her heels spurred sharply under that
In company, she liked to laugh and chat
And knew the remedies for love's mischances,
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An art in which she knew the oldest dances.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The tale portrays the approach Chaucer himself and the late middle age, in general, had towards women. The commodification of feminist gender is an important theme of the tale.
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