In “The Canterbury Tales” By Geoffrey Chaucer, Twenty-nine pilgrims meet by chance at the Tabard Inn and decide to travel together. The pilgrims are on their way to Canterbury to visit the Tomb of Thomas Becket. While at the Inn a contest is suggested by the host. Each pilgrim will have to tell two tales, on the way there and back. Two tales told are “The Wife of Baths Prologue” and “The Clerk’s Tale”. The Wife of Bath believes in an equal partnership in marriage. Griselda believes in total submission to one’s husband. The Wife of Bath defies the medieval notions of a woman’s role in marriage while Griselda embodies them.
The Wife of Bath is a wife unlike others in the medieval days. She has had many husbands. Also she does not believe in being obedient to a man. While debating to her husband about her beliefs on marriage she says, “You shan’t have both … As think to keep my goods and have my body! / One you must do without, whatever you say. / And do you......
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