Wife of Bath by Chauser

The Wife of Bath by Chaucer is a story where the author describes the life of a woman during the Middle Age who was a wife and widow at the same time. Allison was a woman who used her intelligence to get everything she wanted. She got married five times which gave her the opportunity to inherit money from all of her husbands. Her personality, the money she inherited, and the way she used to talk and dress up helped her to get the power she wanted. She only used her husbands to get everything she wanted, the story states “Uses sexual politics to get what she wants in the relationship. What Alison wants most from her marriages is power and by bargaining sexual favors with her husband she appropriates a certain amount of power” (Mini-Lecture: Wife of Bath, lines10-13). In one of my previous post about “The Shipman’s Tale” I talk about a woman that was very similar to Alison because they both used sexual politics and intelligence to get money from men.