The Wife of Bath Prologue
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- Created on: 23-02-16 12:19
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- Wife's views on marriage - experience vs. authority
- The Wife of Bath Prologue
- God didn't command virginity
- She uses sexual power to control her husbands
- She is an expert in marriage - Pardoner will make his own decision
- Says she will begin her tale
- Instead discusses own life
- Her first three husbands were good because they were rich, old, and obedient
- Tells wives to be mistress in own house - women better at lying
- She would accuse her husbands of cheating
- Argues against the complaint that the husband is expected to flatter and praise his wife in public
- Ridiculous that her husband is jealous of young apprentice
- Husband should trust wife to go where she likes
- Ptolemy advises men to mind their own business
- Wife kept control of her husbands through verbal and physical powers
- Women, says the Wife of Bath, are born with the tricks of deceiving, weeping, and spying
- Ptolemy advises men to mind their own business
- Instead discusses own life
- Says she will begin her tale
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