Sections of The Prologue Flashcards
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(always include approximate lines and section number in answer)
1. How does the Prologue begin?
- 1-34: talking about her marriages in general
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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
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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
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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
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What does the wife represent a hateful wife as in section 20?
- 362-370: a hateful wife is a mischance
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What does the wife liken a woman’s love to in section 21?
- 371-378: likens a woman’s love to hell
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What does the wife confess to in section 23? What does she take pride in?
- 395-430: how she concealed her own adultery
she takes pride in her ability to deceive her husbands
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What does is the direct speech about in section 24?
- 431-450: direct speech about how the wife would calm/appease her first 3 husbands after mistreating them
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What husband does the wife talk about in section 25?
- 451-457: about 4th husband
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What does the wife claim she wanted after drinking in section 26? How did she react to her husband wanting to stop her drinking?
- 458-468: how the wife wants sex after drinking
she acting defiantly after her husband wanted to stop her drinking
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What brief digression does the wife go on in section 27?
- 469-480: brief digression to talk of youth and nostalgia
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What does the wife claim about her marriage to her 4th husband in section 28? What else do we learn about the 4th husband?
- 481-502: she put him through suffering (infidelity and flirting with others)
we learn that the 4th husband died
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What does the wife explain in section 29?
- 503-514: why she loved her 5th husband so much
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What does the wife explain about women’s wants in section 30?
- 515-524: women want what they cannot have
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What does stage of meeting Jankin does the wife explain in section 31?
- 525-542: Jankin before they were married/beginning of their relationship
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What does the wife explain about the overlap between 4th husband and Jankin in section 32?
- 543-562: how her 4th husband had gone away/the overlap as she began to associate with Jankin
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How did the wife explain how she ensured Jankin would marry her in section 33?
- 563-574: the wife explains she always has another marriage lined up so Jankin would be this marriage
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How does the wife flirt with Jankin in section 34?
- 575-584: saying he enchanted her with a love potion and deceiving him with a dream that symbolises his great wealth
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What event does the wife explain in section 35?
- 585-592: 4th husband’s funeral and pretending the emotions she had to show
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What does the wife state she was more concerned with at the 4th husband’s funeral in section 36?
- 593-608: fancying Jankin at the funeral
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What abstract context does the wife talk about in section 37?
- 609-620: talking about astrology
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How does the wife explain her more unconditional love for Jankin in section 38?
- 621-626: loving Jankin no matter his social class
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What turning point is explained in section 39?
- 627-640: how her marriage to Jankin went downhill
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What first altercation does section 40 detail?
- 641-681: the authority sources Jankin preached to her.
the wife got fed up and ripped leaves out of the book
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What obsession of Jankin’s do we learn of in section 41?
- 682-710: Jankin’s obsession with wicked wives
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What would Jankin read her in section 42?
- 711-764: stories of wicked wives
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What would Jankin casually tell the wife of in section 43?
- 764-774: Jankin telling of how wives killed their husbands
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What does Jakin compare wives to, implying in section 44?
- 775-787: Jankin compares wives to other objects. he implies that it is better to not have a wife
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What does the final altercation detail in section 45?
- 789-802: wife fed up of Jankin’s book and rips it up
they hit each other and wife falls to the floor (overdramatically and faking it apparently)
Jankin backtracks and regrets it
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What becomes of this last altercation in section 46?
- 803-828: Jankin asks for forgiveness
they come to an agreement to let wife have control over Jankin
e..g he agrees to keep her honour
he is alluded to as dead
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What characters appear in the last section 47?
- 829-end: Friar and Summoner’s interruption
