... Rosa Parks taking a stand for African American rights on the bus, or recounting Biblical texts in order to posit questions and answers to humanly predicaments, there is always place for a parable in literature. It seems so in the Wife of Bath's tale as well....

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... the poem's conclusion the speaker chooses not to make the effort to serve God, but rather to simply wait for "His call," which he considers to be serving. In the parable of Talents mentioned in Matt 25:14-30, Line 15 "And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one; to every one according to ... ...

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