... comes from the contemporary male-defined values deep-rooted in the society. "The social function of woman is sufficiently defined by male-generated strictures on purity and wifely duty so that no autonomous image of woman exists and 'feminism' is inconceivable," Winthrop Wetherbee in his The Canterbury Tales, a critical analysis suggests. Thus while reading the Wife's prologue, taking a modern attitude toward her and her ... see the Wife competes to carry out the economical consideration in marriage. A housewife in a family is tantamount to a laborer in at work. The dedication of a wife...

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