Women in the Wife of Bath

The married woman of privy written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1380s is a extract told from the view of a libber womanhood living in England during the mall(a) ages, indicating her extreme ideas of female maistrye and sh ar statements such as I have the power during al my lief upon his proper corpse and nought he, which shows the Wife oral presentation in a feminist manner. Chaucer present the wife as as inconsistent, illogical and amoral. She is blunt and confident, not subtle until now has smart stratagems as she challenges authority. Women be seen to be more ingenious in their stratagems through the col statement of the Wife of bathing tubs prologue,\nExperience, through noontide auctoritee\nWere in this world, is right ynogh for me\nTo speke of wo that is in marriage (line1-3)\nThese few lines are at the core of the on the whole text. In it, Chaucer make the Wife a rebel, challenging the reliable convention and expectations of her period and of her sex. This ori gin 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 proclivity to speak in transparent statements about her belief in female dominance, showing 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 in that location is no question of feeling between the sexes and although that would have been entire enough in the middle ages. The Wife states the extreme position, in keeping with the nature of her fiber and the purpose for which Chaucer created her. The Wife is brazen as she questions authority and uses her finger to contradict the rules that g overn, she is a fearless women living in a era where women were but mere possessions.\nThe wife uses key talking to such as maistrie and soveraintee to decipher her ingenious stratagems of the power she attains over her fifth husband, J ankin...