1. Wife of Bath
... defense of her sex and convince the reader of her views. I concur with Mann that Chaucer has something to teach us through reading his work today. In her words, the aim is not to rescue the humanist Chaucer, but to see in what ways his stories might enlarge our perceptions of human life and its possibilities, even though they were written ... the clerks prescribed the mold for medieval women did so to hide their own inequalities. Chaucer further pushes the envelope with the WB's long-winded prologue. He allows her to express radical ideas on gender theory, demonstrate liberation from ge...
- Word Count: 2959
- Approx Pages: 12
- Has Bibliography