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Misogyny In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

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Misogyny in Fiction In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the story of the “Wife of Bath” centers around women, their behaviors, and their mentalities from a very shallow perspective. The author of the story expresses his (often passive-aggressive) opinions of women both directly and indirectly. Chaucer writes the perspectives of his female characters, the narrator, and two of the main characters within the narrator’s story, and the mere concept of the aforementioned story revolves around the question: “what do women desire most?” If one were to ask Chaucer himself, he would say that women, above all else, desire power over men. This is evident through the moral of the Wife of Bath’s narrative, in which she states, through the character of the

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