The Evolution of Equality
Women in today's society are almost always viewed as equals.Acheiving equality has been a tremendous strain on women, but times have finally started to change. Looking back on English literature from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, male domination is portrayed to its fullest extent, and continued to be up until the nineteenth century. Not only were women authors and writers almost non-existent, but the women portrayed in literature were almost always weak, frail, devious, deceitful, and constantly compared to children and the insane; the absolute lowest class of society. One poet stands alone from the rest though. Geoffrey Chaucer managed to portray a women in the thirteenth century as strong, powerful, and smart. The Wife of Bath was written in a time where Chaucer took a very grave risk in writing a poem which portrayed how women felt about the society in which they lived. Chaucer contradicted the church, the bible, Jesus and man kind, through the Wife of Bath. The wife of bath, herself, is a character on which centuries of gratitude should be bestowed. She is the evolution of equality and the diminishing of inferiority. The Wife of Bath reveals some of the
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