Character Analysis of The Wife of Bath of Chaucers Canterbury Tales Es

Character Analysis of The wife of Bath of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is Geoffrey Chaucers greatest and most memorable work. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses a pretended pilgrimage to Canterbury as a framing device for a rate of stories (Norton 79). In The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes in detail the pilgrims he meets in the youth hostel on their way to Canterbury. Chaucer is the author, but also a character and the narrator, and acts akin a reporter to provide a detailed description of the pilgrims. through his description, the reader is able to paint a picture of each of the characters. In The General Prologue, he describes each character by giving a detailed description of the characters appearance, clothing, social status, beliefs, and other relevant details. However, Chaucer never condemns his characters What uniquely distinguishes Chaucers prologue from conventional estates of satire, however, is the suppression in al l but a a few(prenominal) instances of overt object lesson judgement. . . . It is up to the reader to draw up the moral indictment from the evidence presented with such artlessness yet while dropping in with the easygoing mood of felaweship that pervades Chaucers prologue to the pilgrimage (Norton 80-81). Chaucer is thus able to wee a tension between the ideal and the real. He builds up the readers expectations and consequently shatters them. Although The Canterbury Tales was probably written in the late fourteenth century, many of the pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales await real and true to life even today. One of the most memorable pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales, as well as one of the most memorable women in literature, is the Wife of Bath. The lusty and domineering... ...urteenth century, her ideas, beliefs, and behavior are more similar a woman of the twentieth century or possibly even the twenty-first century. She is truly a woman ahead of her time.Works CitedAbrams, M . H. et al. The Norton Anthology of position Literature. Vol. 1. Sixth Edition. New York W.W. Norton, & Co. 1993. 76-144.Benson. Chaucer The Canterbury Tales. February 1997. October 24, 1998. Online. Internet. acquirable http icg.harvard.edu/eng115b/Bobr, Janet. Welcome to Camelot. 1998. October 24, 1998. Online. Internet. Available http www.csis.pace.edu/grendel/prjs3f/arthur1.htmCanterbury Tales. 1998. November 30, 1998. Online. Internet. Available http userzweb.lightspeed.net/cheezit/pilgrims/index.htmlJokinen, Anniina. Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400). July 1996. October 24, 1998. Online. Internet. Available http www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm