What stereotypes about women does the wife of bath reveal in her prologue
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The wife of Bath, owing to her considerable personal experience with the institution, starts the prologue by identifying herself as a marriage authority. She had five partners since her first marriage at the age of 12. She says a number of people have blamed her for her several weddings, most of them because Christ went went only once to a wedding, at Cana in Galilee
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- The Wife spends much of her Prologue "parroting anti-feminist stereotypes" about women. These stereotypes say that women are deceitful, shallow, unreasonable, lustful, nags, chatterboxes, – the list goes on.
- While the Wife fits each stereotype throughout its prologue, she declines to leave them unchecked; she states that men, too would have a bad, poor & weak image if women have a chance to write about them.
- This study reveals how angry the wife is at he way she and other women are portrayed and it also shows that women are almost powerless in fighting this representation.
- There are clearly marked gender differences in The Prolog. Men tend to be politically strong and educated, women seem to continue to get what they need when they cater to men or manipulate them. The wife reveals the softer side of the men she marries who can be exploited by her lust for sex & status. However, the situation varies with respect to resources.
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