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(prenominal) memorable work. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses a fictitious pilgrimage to Canterbury as a framing device for a number of stories (Norton 79). In The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer describes in detail the pilgrims he meets in the inn on their way to Canterbury. Chaucer is the author, simply also a character and the narrator, and acts like a reporter to can a detailed description of the pilgrims. Through his description, the reader is able to cay a picture of from each one of the characters. In The General Prologue, he describes each character by giving a detailed description of the characters appearance, clothing, accessible 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 su ppression in all but a few instances of overt moral judgement. . . . It is up to the reader to draw up the moral indictment from the evidence presented with such(prenominal) artlessness even while falling in with the easygoing mood of felaweship that pervades Chaucers prologue to the pilgrimage (Norton 80-81). Chaucer is thus able to create a tension surrounded by the ideal and the real. He builds up the readers expectations and then shatters them. Although The Canterbury Tales was probably written in the late fourteenth century, many of the pilgrims of The Canterbury Tales seem real and true to life-time 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 compulsive... ...urteenth century, her ideas, beliefs, and behavior are more like 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 English 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. for sale 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