The Ideal of Marriage In today's society most marriages have different perspectives of an ideal .
Some married couples are totally faithful, honest and respectful to one other, meaning the .
wife and the husband are together and living happy in there married life, other married couples may .
tend to cheat and disrespect each other, meaning that the married couple are not together or are .
separated may be there opinion of the ideal marriage. In the medieval period Chaucer, writes to his .
audience the ideal of marriage in his stories. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales he explains the medieval .
way of an ideal marriage In "The Wife's and Bath's Tale" and "The Franklin's Tale" suggest there .
own opinion on how a ideal marriage should be. In "The Wife's of Bath's Tale it suggest that a ideal .
marriage should be that the wife should have total master of her husband. In "Franklin's Tale an ideal .
marriage is the husband and wife should be faithful and honest to each other. These two tales suggest .
two different aspects of an ideal marriage. In Chaucer's tale "The Wife's of Baths Tale" is a story .
about how the ideal marriage should be. In this tale the wife explains how she sees how an ideal .
marriage should be. The wife's view on marriage is to have mastery, and dominate the marriage. In .
other words let the wife run the show, she wears the pants in the house hole, and what she says goes. In .
her prologue she explains her beliefs and actions towards her many husbands. Her behavior may seem .
spectacular, but her needs and aspirations are difficult to explain. She likes men, and she dose not like .
sleeping alone. The wife felt the need to be loved and have mastery no matter what happened.
During her four marriages she remained faithful to her husbands as long as she still had a .
husband, but neither Chaucer nor she says that she had lovers while she had been married. Her view .
toward sex was that she would not have sexual intercourse with her husbands unless she received .
