The Wife of Baths Tale :: Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

The wifes life with her initiative three husbands (lines 193-451)The wife of bath begins this section by giving an broadsheet of her startle three marriages. She treats her first three marriages as one marriage talking nearly how she mappingd the same techniques to control her husbands and does non appoint to individual people but a combination of every her first three husbands which she refers to as her husband. The wife begins, with a shockingly cynical statement, by informing her audience that her first three husbands were good, because they were rich and old and easy controlled. The thre were goode men, and riche, and olde. This is very degrading to her husbands she did not care about them at all and is more then willing to stand up in summit of a crowd and degrade them. How pitously a-night I made hem swinke Her abjection of her husbands continues as she goes on to tell her audience how easily she controlled them by forcing them to progress her their worldly posses sions, And sith they hadde me yeven al hir lond. The wife then goes on to tell about how she used to cheat on her husbands and get away with it if anyone told by convincing them that the person who told them was crazy by getting her friends to convince them she didnt. And take witnesse of hir owene maide. The wife was excessively able to get her husbands to buy her new clothes and compensate up and any item she wanted by taking reward of their kind nature. She would tell them that she was not respected like her neighbour was because she has not got so many nice things. I sitte at hoom, I charter no thrifty clooth. The wife is very proud of her achievements at arbitrary her husbands and goes into great detail about how she makes up stories about her husbands getting rummy and insulting her. Thou comest hoom as dronken as a mous, and prechest on thy bench, with ivel preef she also says they insult marriage to women in general, saying you cant marry a poor woman To wedde a povre womman, for costage and you cant marry rich women And if that she be riche, of heigh parage, thane seistow that it it a tormentrie to soffre hire pride and hire malencolie. The wife also says that her husbands use petty arguments against her Thow seist that dropping houses, and eek smoke, and chiding wives maken men to flee.