The Wife of Bath and The Rivals essay plan.

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'The urge to control is in all of us: It drives our lives'
- The Wife of Bath shows she controls the audience.
- They are set in Bath a place were status is everything. The Wife is a female looking for a high status and the Rivals all need to assert their status to prove something.
She is never outshone and uses her skills to get what she wants.
- The Wife of Bath shows she controls the audience.
Lucy also uses her skills to get what she wants. She manipulates everyone so that she can get what she needs.
- She is never outshone and uses her skills to get what she wants.
The wife controls her husbands and gets many goods from it and of course sex.
- 'The urge to control is in all of us: It drives our lives'
  - They are set in Bath a place were status is everything. The Wife is a female looking for a high status and the Rivals all need to assert their status to prove something.
Lydia also tries to control Captain Absolute but fails. (Fake letter)
- The wife controls her husbands and gets many goods from it and of course sex.
Faulkand tries to get emotional control over Julia rather than Psychical.
- The wife asserts psychical power over her men.
Mrs Malaprop controls Lydia's love life unlike how the Wife chooses who she marries.
- Hard to control The Wife but she is by husband four and by Jankin to an extent.
Jack controls Lydia and tricks her, the wife does have some trouble but is more successful at marriage and relationships than Lydia. Lydia is foolish unlike The Wife.

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