Many tales in the Canterbury Tales make some comment about marriage. These comments offer different perspectives of marital relationships. The Wife of Bath expresses a marriage can be happy only after a woman has gained complete sovereignty over her husband. The Clerk reveals an opposite view in his...

1 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, demonstrate many different attitudes and perceptions towards marriage. Some of these ideas are very traditional, such as that illustrated in the Franklin's Tale. On the other hand, other tales present a liberal view, such as the marriages portrayed in the M...

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales demonstrate many different attitudes toward and perceptions of marriage. Some of these ideas are very traditional, such as that discussed in the Franklin's Tale, and others are more liberal such as the marriages portrayed in the Miller's and the Wife of Bath's Tale...

The Wife of Bath's Prologue is different from the Tale in that it is an autobiographical debate with members of the clergy. Dame Allison, the Wife of Bath, lives in a time where oppressive customs are enforced upon women. In the Prologue she stresses her own overbearing evaluation of the positi...