Question

In what sense is The Wife of Bath’s Prologue dramatic. Explain.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The Wife of Bath uses the prologue to explain the basis of her theories about experience versus authority and to introduce the point that she illustrates in her tale: The thing women most desire is complete control ("sovereignty") over their husbands.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Preface to The Wife of Bath Dramatic, By creatively manipulating existing marital norms, The Wife of Bath's Prologue offers a blueprint for social transformation that is not profound but temporary and incomplete. The Wife of Bath opposes clerical and masculine authority, but she does not question the traditional link of marriage and sexuality in late mediaeval times.

Explanation:

• The Preface to The Wife of Bath Dramatic, The Prologue outlines the obstacles to women's agency that mediaeval marriage offers as well as, on the flip side, how current customs of mediaeval marriage might be modified to empower women.
• The information in the "Tools" section below will show that, contrary to the persisting modern notion that mediaeval marriage represented patriarchy at its most extreme, marriage beliefs and practises in late mediaeval English culture were very diverse.
• Prologue of The Wife of Bath Dramatic, Instead, marriage in the mediaeval era was portrayed in complex and contradictory ways that mixed, for instance, a requirement for marital sexuality with a definition of marriage that excluded sex and a demand for both equal love between the couples and the dominance of husbands over wives.

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