Wife of Bath1
Sexual relations between men and woman have created issues of life and death from the beginning of time. In most classic Western beliefs it began when Eve with the help of the Devil seduced Adam thus leading the downfall of humanity into an abyss of sin and hopelessness. This issue arises in all literature from Genesis, Chaucer and into modern day. Authors, clerks and writers of all types have aided stereotyping women throughout history and Geoffrey Chaucer is not an exception in most cases. However, in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath we can find the beginnings of a new type of woman arising from the dark ages of the post-Roman era. And of course at the center of his character’s struggle is sex. As this topic develops, we shall take a brief look into sex, women, the Middle Ages and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath as an example of Middle Ages reflections.The woman of the Middle Ages tended to be pawns of men in religion, politics and economics (Gies). “Although a woman could hold land, inherit it, sell it or give it away and plead for it in law courts, most of a woman’s life was spent under the guardian ship of a man” (Gies 41). These set standards for the
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Approximate Word count = 1415
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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