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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Inconsistencies in The Wife of Bath

The principal(prenominal) characters narration in The married woman of Bath, by Geoffrey Chaucer construct a secreteed persona with lies to hide the soft side of herself. However, Alisouns palpable experienceing being subject as she continues with her narration, which creates the inconsistency in her narrative. Alisoun shows her seduce and manipulates her economises in an prehensile way that make them feel crazy about her; only when at the same time, it seems worry she is the one that desire for them. The wife of Bath builds up her mask with a tough and unconditional persona, but everything she describes about her kinship with the 5th husband seems to be inconsistent with that mask. This is how Alisoun characterizes her persona at the starting of the prologue: \n\nUpon his flessh whil that I am his wif.\nI induct the occasion during al my lif\nUpon his propre form, and nat he: (163-65)\n\nAlisoun declares that she get out ware the condition  oer her husbands on the whole her life; and his propre body  is belong to her, nat he . However, in reality thing seems to be the opposite of what she constructs her persona:\nThat though he hadde me bet on every boon,\nHe coude winne once again my love anoon. (517-18)\n\nHer fifth husband, Jankin, has beat her on every dress up but he somehow manages to winne again  her love. This clearly is not what she means by micturate the power ¦Upon his propre body . Alisouns fifth husband actually has the power all over her body instead. Moreover, she is unbidden to give all her means to him That al myn herte I yaf unto his call for  (605). The Wife of Bath postulate all her heart belongs to her husband is contradict with what she claims to be have the power , it also reveals the rightfulness that her husband is the one have the power over her. This is wholly inconsistent with her personality from the beginning of the prologue, a type of woman that is independent and dominant over me n. Alisoun seems to have affection to all of her husband rather than practiced using them for money a...

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