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Wife of Bath AO4 Flashcards

1
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What is the carnivalesque point

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social hierarchy is temporarily overthrown.

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2
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Give one of Chaucer’s influences

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Boccaccio’s Decameron

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3
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Who was St Jerome

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biblical misogyn

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4
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What other story portrays marriage as a good thing

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Franklins Tale

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5
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What other story portrays marriage as a bad thing

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Merchants Tale

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Which texts do the Kitteridge marriage debate include

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The Marriage Group contains the tales of the Clerk, the Merchant and the Franklin

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Describe the merchants tale

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January and May are married. Yet May and Damien have an affair in a tree. May talks her way out of the situation.

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Give three influences for The Wife of Bath

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Decameron
Romaunt of the Rose
Fabliaux- other European stories

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9
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Describe the nature of ‘Gentillesse’

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A ‘gentil man’ is one who is ‘moost virtuous always’. It’s expressed by noble actions and is god-given, not inherited

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Why does Jankin cite the ‘wikked wyves’

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Following medieval practice

Middle ages gave precedence to the power of authorities and so Jankin uses these to support his arguments

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11
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What crime does the knight, in the Wife’s tale, commit?

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Rape

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12
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What is the normal sentence for rape

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Beheading

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13
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What allusion is used to suggest women cannot keep secrets

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Ovid’s myth of King Midas and his wife

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14
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Before the Knight meets the loathly lady, what does he see

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Dancing ladies

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15
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What are the ‘Three estates’

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1st Estate: Clergy “Those who pray”
2nd Estate: Nobility/Aristocracy “Those who rule”
3rd Estate: Commoners “Those who work”
Unofficial 4th Estate: Women

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16
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What was the view of women generally

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The second sex (daughters of Eve) - Tricky, troublesome, the cause of man’s downfall - A woman became a man’s property on marriage

17
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What were women’s areas of power/influence

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The Church (nunneries) - Trade skills - Weaving. Weavers were part of the greatest industry in the land. Skilled workers were valued.

18
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What is anticlericalism?

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Attacking the church, such as friars and so-called celibate priests

19
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The WoB demonstrates her dominance through what plain aspects of her Prologue?

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Its length and her refusal to be interrupted

20
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Which 3 aspects of the Tale make it particularly feminist?

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  1. A Romance narrated by a woman
  2. A female character with long speech
  3. The knight sent by Queen not King
21
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What was the Catholic church like during Chaucer’s time?

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Whilst the poor were starving, the church was building new, expensive buildings - many people satirised clergy for feasting whilst the peasantry were dying of hunger

22
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Several of Chaucer’s associates were Lollards. Where can this influence on him possibly be seen in the Wife’s tale/prologue

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1) Lollards favoured widows remarrying – the Wife could be a personification of this. 2) According to the Twelve Conclusions of 1395, Lollards believed that God made man to procreate, and as the Wife says, “God bade us for to wexe and multiplie; that gentile text kan I wel understonde”

23
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What did the black death cause

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social dislocation, fall in agriculture and industrial production, scarcity in labour, sharp labour wage rise

24
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What is exegesis

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critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of scripture.

25
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What is a possible source for the Old Hag tale?

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Gower’s ‘Florent’, where a knight also has to find out what “wommen moost desiren”

26
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Why did a lot of people criticize her for getting married so much?

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Christ only went to one wedding, at Cana in Galilee –> ie. multiple marriages is frowned upon in Christianity, destroys sanctity of marriage

27
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What answers does the knight find at the beginning of his journey?

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All the women he asks give him different answers to what they want most

28
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What did Midas have growing under his hair?

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Two donkey ears

29
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What is the Droit de Seigneur

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The right of the lord- to sleep with women in his domain who was betrothed

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