Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony or true delight?

Milton, Paradise Lost, VIII, ll. 383-4

GEOFFREY CHAUCER AND THE WIFE OF BATH´S TALE

Chaucer begins the tale by exploring the institution of marriage,through the character of the Wife who starts by making an statement of authority, her own experience on marriage. In order to show her experience in relationships she states that three of her husbands were old and rich and two of them, young and wild.
Marriage at that time, was considered a transaction organized by males to serve economical and political ends, in where women were treated as an object, a very useful one intended for procreation, and the exchange of land and goods that they owned before marriage.
As the Wife recalls, she had her first arranged marriage at the age of twelve years old, and this aspect was very common since marriage was used to be solemnized and arranged, when children were even in their own cradles.
The......

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Title: The Wife Of Baths Tale
Approximate Word Count: 807
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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