Sunday, November 4, 2012

Mini-Analysis politics : Marriage

The view with in marriage in The Wife of Bath . In the wife of bath begins with a argument of her own five marriages. And how every single one was different and that women did not necessarily had to become nun after having to be married ones. She was willingly getting married for sex and money in which she was satisfied . The wife of Bath felt that it's not necessary to have a normal marriage life so she thorns her back on the tradition : "Experience, though noon auctoritee /Were in this world, is right ynough for me / to speke of wo that is in mariage. / For lorrdinges, sith I twelf yeer was opf age, / thanked be god taht is eterne on live, / Housbondes at chirche dore i have had five."(1-6) the wife of bath had five husbands and a very free lived where she was the one making the choices for herself instead of the husbands . She makes a lot of references to how god and how there is nothing wrong with being married more than one time . For the wife of  bath she choose the best of the best husbands for herself they had money and "nether purs" : "Blessed be god that i have wedded five,/ of whiche i have piked out the best ,/ Bothe of his nether purs and his cheste "(44-46) . For her it was more important to have money and sex then to be happy . In which don't go with what people normally believed about marriage during this time. The wife of bath had a lot interst in haveing a fun marriage but also it was a warning for man to be careful.  




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