ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Meke, Synagogue, Smoot

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18 May 2012
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The canterbury tales the wife of bath"s tale. The wife of bath is the most vivid character a character that goes beyond words. Note that this is not a documentary work in some ways it is a very realistic poem and it touches some topics that surround us at the moment, such as the ideals of marriage. Alisoun has experienced marriage many times 5 in total. Chaucer lets alisoun tell her story and it not chaucer who is telling the story. Alisoun s prologue is one the longest in the ct. The tale tells us more about her ideas about marriage and about her views of herself as a. It is her life story, and it is real tale that she tells everybody woman in society. The prologue is divided into two/three parts: defense of marriage, and the right of women to marry many times. If her husband dies, she is allowed to marry another man.

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