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Women in Canterbury Tales
Title: Women in Canterbury Tales
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1037 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Women in Canterbury Tales
Oliver Thompson
English 4 with Mr. Edson
November 3, 2000
Women in the Canterbury Tales
Throughout the Canterbury Tales women are treated as objects. In the "Knight's Tale" a beautiful maiden is sought after by two men, men willing to do whatever it takes to have her. The carpenter in the "Miller's Tale" married a young and beautiful women, and she is pursued by two men because of her beauty. Two students exact revenge upon a miller in …showed first 75 words of 1037 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1037 total…rather than human beings. In all four tales women did not hold jobs, were not educated or upstanding members of society, and did not appear to have minds of their own. The women acquiesced to the will of the men in the stories, their thoughts and views deemed unimportant by the men in society. It is not until the "Wife of Bath's Tale" that we see a man recognizing the importance of an intelligent wife.
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