Wife Of Bath Flashcards
Quote for… her deafness
She was somdel deef
Quote for… her clothes
Hir hosen were of fyn scarlet reed
Quote for… her worthiness
She was a worthy womman al hir live
Quote for… number of husbands
Housbondes at chirche door she hadde five
Quote for… her teeth
Gat-tothed was she
Quote for… her view of marriage
wo that is in marriage
Quote for… King Solomon
The wise king Salomon, I trowe he hadde wives mo than one
Quote for… her next husband
Welcome the sixte when that ere he shal
Quote for… her marital duty
In wyfhood I wol use myn instrument for myn enterte is but for to pleye
Quote for… a summary of her 3 husbands
the thre men were goode, riche and olde
Quote for… her view of maistrie
Be maister of my body and my good
Quote for… her fourth husband
my fourthe husband was a revelour, he hadde a paramour
Quote for… Jankin’s legs
Me thoughest he hadde a paire of legs so clean and faire
Quote for… her vagina
I hadde the best quonaniam may be
Quote for… how she was made deaf
I rente out of his book a leefe that of the strook myn ere wax al deef
Quote for… her with the power
He yal me al the bridel in myn hand to han the governance of hous and land
Quote for… her and Jankin at peace
And after that day we hadden never debaat
Quote for… the knights description
a lusty bachelor
Quote for… he knights rape
By verray force he raft her of hire maidenhead
Quote for… Queen Gwen’s sentence
I grante thee lyf if thou kanst tellen me what thing it is that women moost desiren
Quote for… the loathy lady’s promise
Plight me thy trouthe heere in myn hand, the nexte thing I require thee thou shalt do it
Quote for… the knights answer
Wommen desiren to have soverienitee
Quote for… the loathy lady’s request
thou me take unto thy wife
Quote for… the loathy lady’s transformation
that she so faire was, and so yong therto
Quote for… Knight’s view of his punishment
‘how he waileth’
Critic view on… Wife as a critique of society
Dinshaw: She is happy to keep it in place, but she wants it to accommodate feminine desires
Critic quote for… the black death
Patterson: ‘Social boundaries were breaking down. The wife is then a product of this new order.’
Critic quote for… Chaucer as a proto-feminist
The Guardian says: Women take control of their own destinies
Critic quote for… sex and power link
Owen: ‘Much of the sex in the text has little to do with desire and a lot to do with power.’
Critic quote for… the Wife’s clever use of power
Knight: ‘The wife’s clever use of power means she is able to escape male dominance’
Critic quote for… Wife as a sociopath
Sands: ‘Sociopath unable to form meaningful relationships’
Critic quote for… Wife reinforcing anti-feminist views
Hansen: Wife is a creation of man therefore, ‘seen as reinforcing anti-feminist views rather than undermining them.’
Quote for… God’s view of sex
God bad us for to wexe and multiplie
Quote for… Wife mistreatment of husbands
They loved me so wel, that I ne tolde no deyntee of their love
Quote for… Wife’s lecherous bird
and singe, ywis as any nightingale
Critic quote for… Wife’s discourse
Woods: Her discourse is marked by frank and almost obstreperous animalism.
Quote for… Wife getting soverignity
got by maistrye al the soveraynetee
Quote for… Wife’s job
Of clooth-makyng she hadde swich an haunt
Quote for… her love of Jankin
My fifthe housbonde, God his soule blesse,
Which that I took for love and no richesse
Quote for… Knight giving Wife power
My lady and my love, and wyf so deere,
I put me in youre wise governance
Quote for… status of three husbands
hadde social degree
Critic quote for… the basis of marriage
Owen: Marriage was a social and business institution
Critic quote for… representation of marriage
Owen: It is often little more than a setting for the events of a story
Critic quote for… wife’s embodied negative female characteristics
Tucker: The Wife of Bath embodies a number of negative female characteristics…stupidity, arrogance and deceitfulness
Critic quote for… Wife’s view of love and sex
Williams: The Wife reduces human love and sex to business transactions
Quote for… Wife’s affair in fields
Jankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis and I myself, into the fields went
Quote for… Wife’s affair when #4 away
I hadde the betrre leyser for to pleye
Quote for… Wife not really loving #4
I wepte but smal, and that I undertake
Critic quote for… The Knight’s change in the tale
Wainwright: The story of the change which occurs in a selfish, proud, and morally blind knight who is taught to find beauty and worth in wisdom and purity
