Wife_Of_Bath

Wife Of Bath Wife of Bath as a Feminist Hero Throughout the history of the world women have been portrayed as being a sort of ally with the devil. Women then and now may look upon most of these “devilish” characteristics as desirable, strong-willed and feministic. Chaucer appears to support women and specifically these feminists by creating two very strong-willed and successful women in the Wife of Bath and the old hag in the Wife’s tale. However, through all of the tough outer attributes, on the inside are the same classic and traditional damsels in distress that require a man just like the women of that time always had. Through the original strong qualities of the two women, Chaucer provides a hopeful example and model for women of now and then. Furthermore, by giving these women some stronger, domineering and “masculine” features Chaucer is terrifically satirizing the gender roles and stereotypes of the time. Along with all of these strong feminist messages also come out anti-feminism ideals about keeping women in a certain role, causing a lengthy and intelligent debate upon what Chaucer really meant. All of these reasons are why it is important to discuss and understand The Wife bath, wife, women, husband, chaucer, example, men, time, through, over, out, woman, prologue, man, lines, good, control, tale, strong, shows, quote, now, married, marriage, longer, husbands, great, feminist, despite, dame, about, wife’s, upon, two