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Fradenburg.

Explains how romance and fantasy is ideas as a…

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…means of escaping from the problems of the real world

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Lee Patterson.

Views the prologue and tale as an attack of male…

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…supremacy and female subordination. Wife uses wifehood to her own advantage

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Finke.

The wife’s assumed childlessness could be ‘symbolic of the…

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…barrenness of her life, of her single-minded pursuit of profit

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Tucker.

The wob is an exceptionally strong woman who takes…

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…full advantage of the power of her sexuality

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Tucker.

Her greatest unhappiness comes in moments…

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….when her power and maistrie is being threatened

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Smith.

The wob embodies a number of negative female characteristics…

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…stupidity, arrogance and deceitfulness

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Gregory.

It is the wife’s masks of love that…

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…gains her all that she desires

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Williams.

The wife reduces human love…

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…and sex to business transactions

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Moore.

Overcharged most of his persons with whims and absurdities…

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…for which, the circumstances they are engaged in afford but a very dissproportionate vent

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Leicester.

Alison is an early feminist striving for autonomy…

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…is an oppressive patriarchal society

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Kinnes.

It is chaucer’s characters who…

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….are more memorable than their tales

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Hebron.

We might see the wife as sacrificing…

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…her femininity in pursuit of a feminist cause

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Fradenburg.

We must assume the wife of bath is based…

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…on one or more real women

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Smith.

For the wife of bath, money, sex and marriage…

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…are all interlinked and none can exist without the other

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Finlayson.

She’s made sex into a metaphorical financial obligation…

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…in marriage: the husbands copulation is paying off his debt to his wife

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Gestsdottir.

In her prologue, the wife argues that…

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…there are always two sides to every story

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Gestadottir.

Women: captives of the…

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…patriarchal world

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Gestsdottir.

Her prologue may be seen as a confession…

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….where she confesses her sins but furthermore defends them

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Pardon says: o ye wommen be ye subgets…

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…to you’re housbande

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Gestsdottir.

The wife is not afraid to voice her knowledge of misogyny…

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…in her society, and is not afraid to revolt against patriarchy

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Gestsdottir.

The rapist knight becomes the victim of…

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…oppression just as the maiden was a victim of his rape

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Gestsdottir.

Her motivation in life is to change patriarchy…

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…or at least demonstrate the same effect of women’s oppression

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Gestsdottir.

Her tale demonstrates the conflict between the…

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….sexes and that surrendering authority to a woman can be rewarding for men

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Gestsdottir.

The wife has through her many marriages learned that marriage is…

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…established on money and the one who has control over economic assets is the one who has sovereignty

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Gestsdottir. | The wife's prologue centres on how...
....the sexes relate
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Gestsdottir. | Religion had such a power in the 14th century....
...that it influenced the prevailing attitude to appropriate gender roles
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Gestsdottir. | Her actions, behaviour and beliefs...
...are not suitable for a woman of her time
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Day. | He was a believer seeking...
...to affect change
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Day. | Chaucer is implying that the higher up in the heirarchy....
...the church official, the more likely he is to be corrupt
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Day. | Enables Chaucer to 'frame a work that revealed and implicitly condemned....
....the corrupt practices of many church officials with impunity
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Day. | Chaucer was not criticising the entire institution...
...of the Catholic Church but merely some of its officials
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Day. | These characters are corrupt church officials revealing their true natures....
...and their greed by taking their advantage of the common folk they are bound to serve
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Day. | S/f by creating a rivalry between the two...
...he adds comic relief to a harsh view of corrupt church officials
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Day. | The summoner is compared to the lowest members of society...
...and also the lowest of the otherworldly creatures, a fiend from hell
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Day. | Chaucer's frustration at an institution...
...that was no longer functioning in the best interest of the people
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Kitteridge. | The wife had stood forth as an opponent of the orthodox view of subordination...
...in marriage, as the upholder of a heretical doctrine, and as the exultant practicer of what she preached
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Kitteridge. | In this act of chaucer's human comedy, we have found...
...that the wife of bath is in a very real sense, the dominant figure
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Kitteridge. | She had garnished her sermon with scraps of...
...holy writ and rags and tatters of erudition
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Kitteridge. | The wife's discourse is not malicious...
...she is too jovial to be ill-natured
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Kitteridge. | Clerks are always...
....satirising women
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Tucker. | The wife of bath presents a woman's perspective...
...on the institution of marriage
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Tucker. | The wife of baths prologue presents her experience of...
...marriage as an economic exchange of sex for wealth
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Tucker. | Her greatest unhappiness lies in moments...
....where her power of maistrie is threatened
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Tucker. | The commodification of sex within marriage...
...allows the wife of bath to retain control over her husbands
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Tucker. | The wife's descriptions of her first three husbands are filled with...
...language that creates a correlation between sex and money
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Tucker. | Sex if a form of...
...payment within marriage
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Tucker. | The wife wouldn't take the trouble...
...to please her husbands sexually unless it was for some profit
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Tucker. | The wife is no victim, rather she is a perpetrator...
...Leicester views the wife as a victim of the commodification of sex in marriage
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Tucker. | The distinction between good and bad comes...
...from the level of power each man grants her
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Tucker. | The wife celebrates female freedom...
....and sovereignty in marriage
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Tucker. | Each served his purpose by helping...
....her fain wealth and status
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Smith. | The wife's only true power...
...is her sexuality
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Joyner. | The wife argues against traditional doctrine...
...And against authority as a whole
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Croft. | Her readiness to admit sin...
...and delight in it is central to her humorous nature
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Blake. | Her intention lies beneath...
...sarcasm and a purposefully derogatory invective
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Mann. | In the unending war of the sexes...
...the wife refuses to accept the subordinate position
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Mann. | disguise is microcosmically represented in the tale...
....to exploit the large-scale falsity of nobility in the 1300s
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Ally. | The wife is both unintelligent...
...and morally corrupt
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Brodie. | The use of sex and marriage is necessary because they are....
...the only methods available to women in such an oppressive time
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Aers. | Chaucer is satirising the system which would have forced...
...young women to trade sex for economic security with old husbands
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Barr. | Her misunderstandings show her female ignorance. She attempts to talk....
...with female experience but uses a male voice of authority as she quotes all male texts
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Hansen. | The wife remains mans creation and chaucer's tactics to...
...contradict, reinforce all the stereotypical medieval ideas about women as cruel, emotional and sexually voracious
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Aers. | Chaucer works over ruling ideas, conventional....
...pieties and the unexamined norms of official culture in a way that subjects them to processes of criticism
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Gilbert. | One side of the loathy lady manifests as an optimal threat...
...to masculinity, the other as a dark embodiment of female frustration and fear
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Hansen. | Their sudden reconciliation suggests 'the persistence of those...
...self-indulging hopes of reconciliation that battered wives so often express
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Mann. | Argues her tirade is simultaneously a demonstration...
...of female bullying and of salutary witness to male oppression
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Mann. | Chaucer 'gives the old stereotype a new twist by showing that...
...anti-feminist literature produces the angry woman that is purports only to describe
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Winney. | From misunderstanding biblical texts 'she has overthrown the prohibitive morality...
...of the medieval church and supplanted her own pragmatic doctrine on the ruins
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Patterson. | Historical reality of medieval life for women. Uses...
...wifehood to own advantage. Attacks male supremacy and female subordination. Niether accepts marriage as a dehumanising institution not rebels against it
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Carruthers. | The practical bourgeois wife clearly contradicted the idealised image...
...of the subservient wife held up as a model by gentility and the church

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