Gender in Tis Pity and The Wife of Bath
I comparision of the representation of gender within Tis pity and The Wife of Bath
- Created by: Rebekah Allanah
- Created on: 19-04-14 10:40
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- Gender
- Putana
- No one questions her torture or sentence
- 'burnt to ashes' for her knowledge and as a warning
- Vasques was just as aware, if not more so, tortured Putana and killed Giovanni and he was only banished
- 'burnt to ashes' for her knowledge and as a warning
- Values wealth in men
- "He is wise, and what is more, rich"
- The wife also values this in her husbands
- "The thre were goode men, and riche, and olde"
- No one questions her torture or sentence
- Soranzo
- Double standards
- He is a known adulterer yet when he finds out Annabella is pregnant, he is outraged
- "strumpet" "famous whore"
- He is a known adulterer yet when he finds out Annabella is pregnant, he is outraged
- Dominant in his relationship
- "dragging in Annabella"
- The wife was beaten by Jankyn
- "he hadde me bet on every bon"
- The wife was extremely dominant in her first 3 marriages
- "I governed hem so wel, after my lawe"
- Double standards
- Annabella
- Owned and objetified
- "Renaissance daughters need to become wives because their father's needed to transfer patriarchal responsibilities to husbands"
- In the second scene she is up on the balcony like a prize
- Laura Mulvey - Male gaze
- Annabella is blamed for all the events in the play despite Giovanni being the perpetrator and often manipulating Annabella
- "Who could not say, tis pity she's a whore?"
- Thomas Edgar stated there are 3 stages of a woman's life cycle; "unmarried virgin"; "married" and the "widow"
- Annabella does not fit into these categories as she was unmarried but pregnant
- Owned and objetified
- Giovanni
- Strong use of blazon - objectification
- He is not blamed for all anything that happened
- "Who could not say, tis pity she's a whore?"
- Hippolita
- Wanting to remarry because she is a widdow
- The Wife of Bath does remarry multiple times
- Soranzo rejects her because he is interested in Annabella
- Breaks from Edgar's stage of "married" as she is an adulterer
- Wanting to remarry because she is a widdow
- Florio
- Patriarchal Father
- Says he wants his daughter to marry for love yet encourages the marriage with Soranzo
- This is further encouraged when Annabella falls ill - possibly as a sickly bride will be worth less
- "having my word engaged: Owing her heart"
- Gets a doctor for Annabella when she appears ill despite earlier mentioning Giovanni looks ill and giving him no provision
- Annabella is female and weaker, therefore needs to be given a doctor?
- Florio prefers his daughter?
- Because Giovanni already left for university, Florio felt he was capable of looking after himself?
- Annabella is Florio's last chance to have grandchildren so he is putting all of his resources into her?
- "he [Giovanni] is so devoted to his book, As I must tell you true, I doubt his health"
- "I see you have of late been sickly"
- Says he wants his daughter to marry for love yet encourages the marriage with Soranzo
- "Renaissance daughters need to become wives because their father's needed to transfer patriarchal responsibilities to husbands"
- Patriarchal Father
- The Wife
- Proto-feminist?
- Yes
- Wants to empower women
- Wants to break stereotypes
- Nazan Yildiz: "her prologue is taken as a revolutionary document for the age in which it was written" - begining of protofeminism
- No
- Wanted to dominate men, not have equality
- Her tale gives men what they want
- Many conflicting ideas including the objectification of females and the animalistic references
- Elaine Hansen: "reinforcing anti-feminist views by stereotyping medieval ideas about women as cruel, emotional and sexually voracious"
- Yes
- Multiple marriages
- Her justification is god saying "God bad us for to wexe and multiplie"
- Yet she has no children
- Her justification is god saying "God bad us for to wexe and multiplie"
- Book of wicked wives
- The book that Jankyn read continuously
- Tells the story of many wives through history and implies all wives are like them
- Tale
- Begins with the knight ****** a woman - male domination
- Queen has to ask the King's permission to deal with the Knight - Patriarchy
- Old woman gives the naswer to the knight and he is bound to her - matriarchy
- The knight's life was in the control of the Queen- matriarchy
- Knight gives the old woman 'maistrie' - Matriarchy
- The old woman gives him both loyalty an beauty - patriarchy?
- Elaine Hansen finds it distressing that "Chaucer allows the Wife of Bath, who seems to want to challenge the medieval antifeminist rejection of women, in the end to accept it"
- She believes that the knight is "rewarded"
- Elaine Hansen finds it distressing that "Chaucer allows the Wife of Bath, who seems to want to challenge the medieval antifeminist rejection of women, in the end to accept it"
- Proto-feminist?
- Richardetto and Philottis
- Philottis does whatever her uncle wishes of her
- She agrees to spy on Annabella, yet does not wish harm upon anyone
- "Alas, I fear You mean some strange revenge"
- Richardetto tells her to join a nunnery
- "Uncle, shall I resolve to be a nun?"
- Most likely as she no longer has a purpose
- She agrees to spy on Annabella, yet does not wish harm upon anyone
- Philottis does whatever her uncle wishes of her
- Gilbert and Gubar
- Women are repressed in literature as they are written as either a 'monster' or an 'angel'
- Annabella - Angel at the begining of the play, monster at the end
- Putana - monster
- Philotis - angel
- Wife of bath tale - old woman is a monster but her transformation makes her an angel
- Philotis - angel
- Putana - monster
- Annabella - Angel at the begining of the play, monster at the end
- Women are repressed in literature as they are written as either a 'monster' or an 'angel'
- Putana
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