In today's society women are independent thinkers and non-conformists. Women are encouraged to share their thoughts and ideas on issues these days. Woman have come along way from a time when they were told to conform to the ways of society and to keep their mouths shut because their opinion didn't matter. The medieval society was one time when women were treated as less than human. In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath does not conform to her society but goes against every single rule in the book. Through her many marriages and opinions on many issues of marriage we see how she thinks a society should be run.

In The Canterbury Tales, the character of the Wife of Bath is one strong-willed, confident woman who defies the rules of society. She is described as having a bold face (Prologue 468). This shows that she is not the kind of woman that will

The Wife of Bath saw being a woman as an opportunity to make the male race feel like less of a race. She used her disadvantage to her advantage. Her disadvantage of being a woman did not get in her way; she used it to make men forgive her for scolding them. Then she would make them feel guilty and they would give her control and power, for which she was looking for all along. She is one woman, and there are many others, in medieval society who refused to conform and refused to give up her independent thinking and still got what she wanted. She got almost everything out of life that she wanted and she didn't have to give up what she loved. She loved power.

walk around town with her head lowered to every man who walks by her. She is the kind of woman who will walk by every man with her head up, making them feel as if they should be ones lowering their heads to her. Another unconformity of the Wife of Bath i

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