The story of the Wife of Bath’s Tale has a reoccurring theme that represents how you can be loyal but your actions do not always make you noble. The Wife of Bath’s Tale is about a knight that breaks the law and the Queen tells him that he will not be beheaded if he searches for a year and a day to find what women most desire. Then the Knight finds an old lady in the search and she tells the Knight what he wants if he promises her his hand in marriage. Later on in the story the old lady notices that he is a jerk, not noble, and she gives him a long lecture about how being rich and rude will not get him anywhere in life. The old lady helps him realize that looks and money will not amount to how loyal she can be. She even tells him that loyalty is more than money in the end.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is important to Western Literature because it undermines royal marriages. Nobility was thought of as having more power and money than everyone else and that they could rule the city. In that time period, peasants were not allowed to marry someone with noble blood. The Wife of Bath’s Tale was the first major story that was written in Middle English. When reading this story we feel as if it is close to being a big business, how each employee is trying to become the top seller. All top sellers convince consumers to buy the product. The top seller in The Wife of Bath’s Tale is the old lady, she convinced the Knight to marry her in return for gaining the answer of what most women desire.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is a feminist story, and is both empowering and insulting towards women. The story is empowering because the Queen wants the Knight to find out what women most desire. In reality, all women do not have one thing that they desire and because of that, this story is insulting. As the old lady suggests, we women would like to have control over our husband, but that is a snippet of what we desire. The Wife of Bath’s Tale reminds us of the movie Mean Girls because it is about popularity, money, looks and the power of women. The story also deals with popularity because the knight is too noble for the old lady, money because the knight does not want to marry her; she is poor, and looks because the old lady is not beautiful. The power of women because during the story the queen is in charge of the punishment and tells the knight to find the one thing women most desire. If the knight finds what women most desire, then he will not be beheaded. -- Written by ENGL083-36N Group 3
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I think this group did an excellent job on making you really know what was going on in the story, they made it easy to imagine what was happening. i think they gave a lot of details from the story and there vocabulary was great! i didnt see anything wrong with the grammer.
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The group did a very good job on summarizing the story. The part about the peasants were not supposed to marry someone who wasn’t a peasant, this is so true. Why was it back then you could only marry in your “class”, it shouldn’t matter who you are, love is love. I kind of disagree with them when they said it was insulting to women, I found it to be somewhat respectful in a way. Because of what the knight had done he had to go around and ask women what they most desire. If I was that knight I would have been embarrassed to have to go and do this. So to me it was like “hey listen to what women desire.” And in this time period women wasn’t listen to, so they kind of got a say in a matter, and had to be listen to. Over all the Blog was well written, very good job group 3!
I think Group 3 made and excellent point about the theme. Which was how one can be loyal but their actions don't always make them noble. That statement is true in many different cases. You see that all around, for example, when people try to see like the bigger person they usually do something that makes them the smaller person.
They also make an excellent point when they mention the rules about social standings. How low class could not be associated with the high class, which still shows a lot of truth today. Though people may talk to the lower class, we are all divided by how much money we have and are all treated differently.
I enjoyed reading the summary of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" it displayed many meanings of the story in a simple, nice-to-read sentence that greatly defined the meaning of the story. The story displayed the item that it was against the ways of the people that someone marry in another class, I believe that when these ways were introduced to this era of people, it was flawed, the only thing people need be worried about when marrying people of other classes would be just if the person doesn't love the opposite in return.
I believe this story isn't insulting to women at all in the sense that the knight asks what people want the most. With a question like that from an authority so great would be embarrassing and unusual to ask.
I really enjoyed reading this blog and understand the story much greatly than before.
I agree with group 3. I think that there blog post was very good. They really did a good job on making it easier to understand the Canterbury Tales. They had a lot of great details in there blog post. It was a good summary of the tale. I think that this was a interesting story and having it summed up made it easier to understand and get the main idea of the story.
I really enjoyed reading the paper over "The Wife of Bath's Tale." It was such a wonderful piece and clarified some questions I had that I couldn't understand while reading the piece itself. I agree with the comparison to "Mean Girls". It was a very well written piece and I could understand it clearly. Good Job to this group!
i believe this group did a overall good job. not only on the amount of detail that they provided but how they worded it and made me think that i could picture what was going on in the back of my head. it was a good piece and put together prettyh well
I really enjoyed this paper. Group 3 mentions that loyality is easy to attire but your actions do not always make you noble, and I couldn't agree more. At the end of the story, the knight learned this along with beauty/money don't make a person or marriage filled with happiness or even successful. This story really teaches a great life lesson and I think more people should be introduced to this story. Good job Group 3 explaining all this.
Group three did a very good job of pointing out the theme of The Wife of Baths Tale. They pointed out that the theme represents how you can be loyal but your actions may not always make you noble. I also think the point thay made about it relating to Western literature was very important. And how it was compared to loyal marriages. Overall it was very accurate and gives a good point.
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This group did a great job on explaining the store and what it was all about. I also think that the this line is very true; "represents how you can be loyal but your actions do not always make you noble". But, noble night or not, I don't think he should have got away with his crime. And a year and a day is a long time to find a answer to one question. Anyways the night ends up marrying the old lady, and learns from the question he had found for the queen and when he was asked and given two options from his wife, he lets her choose. The blog has great description of the western literature in the second paragraph. good job group three.
I think group 3 did a perfect job. I liked how the group related how actions can determine how nobel you are. I think it teaches a good lesson that money is not everything. Also not to judge a book by its cover. Group 3 did a great job making me understand what the story meant.
My name is Sheila Gray and I'm in Mrs. Elizabeth Starr's English 245 Literature and Old Testament class. I found this story to be very interesting but I was wondering was the story told from a womans point of view or a mans? The old lady taught this "nobleman" a very valuable lesson that money, power, and title does not mean that you are a very nice person. They both married for selfish reason and not everyone shares the same desires and beliefs. At least in todays time we have the freedom to choose who we marry for the right reasons. Regardless of race, culture, religion, and appearances. I really enjoyed this blog and I'm thankful that I'm in the 21st century were there are more opportunities for women.
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