Sections of The Prologue Flashcards
PROLOGUE
(always include approximate lines and section number in answer)
1. How does the Prologue begin?
- 1-34: talking about her marriages in general
PROLOGUE
2,3,4. How does the wife refer to sources of authority?
- 35-58: speaking of men that had more than 1 wife in the Bible
- 59-72: speaking of God’s relation to marriage and virginity
- 73-104: St Paul’s virginity
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5,6,7. What does the wife comment on to do with sexuality and virginity?
- 105-114: virginity in general
- 115-134: the purpose of genitals
- 135-162: with reference to God and how humans originated/how a husband should pay his wife
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What happens in section 8?
- 163-193: Pardoner’s interruption
PROLOGUE
What does the wife talk about in section 9?
- 194-223: how did the wife made her husbands suffer and dominated them all in general
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What does the wife talk about the art of in Section 10?
- 224-234: the art of lying
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What does the wife teach the read how to do in section 11?
- 235-256: how to lecture and deceive a husband
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What does the wife state a list of and what men cannot do in section 12?
- 257-264: a list of why men may desire a woman
and how they cannot protect their women and prevent themselves being cuckolded
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What type of wives does the wife talk about in section 13?
- 265-284: ugly/contentious wives
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What can husbands not do before marriage accord to section 14?
- 285-292: husbands cannot test their wife before marriage
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What does the wife list example of in section 15?
- 293-302: list of what a husband thinks he must do to make the wife feel lively
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What new character appears in section 16? and what point does the wife bring along with them?
- 303-322: apprentice Jankin is the new character
the wife tells the point that women do not like a controlling husband with his appearance
PROLOGUE
What point about cheating does the wife make in section 17?
- 323-336: how husbands do not accept it as quickly as women do
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What does the wife claims has a huge affect on how women feel in section 18?
- 337-356: clothing
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What does the wife claim a husband cannot do to her in section 19?
- 357-361: a husband cannot restrain the Wife
PROLOGUE
What does the wife represent a hateful wife as in section 20?
- 362-370: a hateful wife is a mischance