Chaucers Views on Women: Griselda and the Wife of Baths the Loathly L

Chaucers Views on Women Griselda and the married woman of Baths the Loathly skirtAs a man fascinated with the role of women during the 14th Century, or most commonly known as the Middle Ages, Chaucer makes conclusive evaluations and remarks concerning how women were viewed during this age period. Determined to show that women were not weak and humble because of the male command surrounding them, Chaucer sets extinct to prove that women were a powerful and strong-willed gender. In order to defend this argument, the following characters and their tales will be examined Griselda from the Clerks Tale, and the Wife of Bath, teller to the Wife of Baths Tale. Using the role of gender within the genres of the Canterbury Tales, exploring each womans alliance in the outcomes of their tales, and comparing and contrasting these two heroines, we will find out how Chaucer broke the mold on medievalist attitudes toward women.Chaucer introduces us to several types of women in the usual Prolog ue of his famous work the Canterbury Tales. Among these women are women of rank and social status the Prioress, the Nun, and the Wife of Bath. Although they are surrounded by various types of men, these women told tales that made men stand for twice about crossing their paths. As we read about these women in the prologue, we also get a sense of whom they are they have money, authority, and an pedigree about them that suggests that they are not notwithstanding on the pilgrimage just to save their own souls (the Wife of Bath definitely shows this trait break away than her religious counterparts.) However, it is not just the women who stand for their sisters the Clerk jumps on the female bandwagon with a tale of his own. gender provides a way of reading aspects o... ...n, Lesley. (1994). libber Readings in Middle English Literature The Wife of Bath and completely Her Sect. Routledge London. (pgs 72-73, 196-203)Hansen, Elaine Tuttle. (1992). Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender. U niversity of California Press, Ltd England. (pgs 188-208). Mitchell, J. Allan. (2005). Chaucers Clerks Tale and the Question of Ethical Monstrosity. Studies in Philology. Chapel pile Winter 2005. Vol.102, Iss. 1 pg. 1, 26 pgsRigby, Stephen Henry. (2000). The Wife of Bath, Christine de Pizan, and the Medieval Case for Women. Chaucer Review, (pgs 133-165)Stanbury, Sarah. (1997). Regimes of the optical in Premodern England Gaze, Body, and Chaucers Clerks Tale. New Literary History 28.2, (pgs 261-289)Weisl, Angela Jane. (1995). Conquering the Reign of Femeny Gender and Genre in Chaucers Romance. D.S. Brewer Cambridge, (pgs 2-3, 91-96)