| Study Questions on Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale |
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Cecilia Liu
1. According to the anti-feministic theologians in the medieval church, what are the characteristics of women?
2. What metaphor does Wife of Bath use to describe the situation when man and woman are put together?
3. Why does Chaucer have such a long detailed prologue for the Wife of Bath?
4. Give a character sketch of the Wife of Bath.
5. In Wife of Bath's Tale, what is the point of telling us at the beginning of the story about the supernatural creatures and their disappearance later?
6. What do you think about Chaucer's arrangement of the change of the old wife's appearance and the happy ending?
7. What is special about the Wife of Bath's appearance and personality? Is there a connection between her personality and the story?
8. How does Chaucer use humor in the tales of the Miller and the Wife of Bath? Is there any difference in how he uses it in the two?(external)
English Literature I: the Medieval Period;English Literature and Culture From Medieval Period to the Eighteenth Century