Women in the Wife of Bath

The married woman of Bath written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1380s is a evince told from the perspective of a womens disciplineist woman living in England during the middle ages, indicating her extreme ideas of effeminate maistrye and sharing statements such as I give the cause during al my lief upon his good body and nought he, which shows the wife speaking in a feminist manner. Chaucer present the wife as as inconsistent, bewildered and amoral. She is outspoken and positive(p), not subtile yet has ingenious stratagems as she challenges consent. Women are seen to be to a greater extent ingenious in their stratagems by dint of the opening statement of the married woman of Baths prologue,\nExperience, finished noon auctoritee\nWere in this world, is right ynogh for me\nTo speke of wo that is in marriage (line1-3)\nThese fewer lines are at the center of attention of the whole text. In it, Chaucer touch on the married woman a rebel, contend the accepted convention a nd expectations of her layover and of her sex. This opening sentence shows that the wife is not subtle, she is outspoken and confident as she gets straight to the point, the woe in marriage. The Wife has a tendency to speak in bold statements about her principle in female dominance, screening that women are not the subtler sex,\nAn housbonde I wol have, I wol nat lette,\nWhich shal be bothe my detour and my thrall. (Line-154-55)\nThis shows that there is no read/write head of quality between the sexes and although that would have been radical enough in the middle ages. The Wife states the extreme position, in keeping with the spirit of her character and the purpose for which Chaucer created her. The Wife is brave as she questions authority and uses her experience to contradict the rules that govern, she is a brave women living in a era where women were yet mere possessions.\nThe wife uses come across words such as maistrie and soveraintee to describe her ingenious stratagem s of the billet she attains over her fifth husband, Jankin...