erty but also of his mind and body in an attempt at reconciliation despite the fact that he was not fully the guilty one. In a display of her newfound superiority she ordered him to burn his book right then and there. Thus through the manipulation of his feelings of remorse she achieved the mastery over him which she had sought. Another example of women's use of emotions to gain power presents itself when the wife speaks about her first three old husbands: "I governed them so well in my way that each of them was most happy and eager to bring me gay things from the fair. They were glad indeed when I spoke pleasantly to them; for God knows I chided them cruelly."(195). From this quote the reader can easily perceive that the men were eating out of her hand so to speak. She was so w
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