Wife Of Bath Analysis

In this essay is about the relevance of today’s marriage to the wife of bath’s view. The wife of bath is a story that in the whole plot a woman with no name as the wife of bath. She is a wealthy and elegant woman from Bath which has been married for five times. She has traveled to many places with a sense of the experience of seeing the world, and fully experience in both: love and sex.

First, from the story when everyone judging her about the times of her marriage the wife of Bath cited King Solomon which has many wives so why can’t women be the same in order to defend her position. And she thinks she cannot see anything immoral in it. Then when she talks about her five husbands which she categorized them as “good” and “bad”. The first three …show more content…
Nowadays people will think it is a normal thing to have more than one marriage, it is better to find the right one to marry it doesn't matter how many times you married. In the old times, the image of the marriage is usually women usually under the control of men and do what they said. But nowadays if a woman is stronger, experienced in exploring the world, educated is able to take control of a marriage. Women do not need to be under the position of men, just like the wife of bath. And people think that they will hold a marriage unless it is really good to do, they would also think about whether there is benefit. The way of the first four marriage of wife of bath which gives her wealth and status just like the political marriage nowadays. They are also married because of money and fame, there is no love between them. They are able to get out or flirt with other men or women and some of the young girls nowadays would also choose to marry rich old men even because they know that they can get reputation and their heritage when the old man died. Women nowadays are open minded, divorce is a normal thing as for one-half of people maybe divorced and most of the women do not keep their virginity before marriage they don’t think it is such an important thing to keep it for their husbands. Women know that men have strong sexuality sometimes as well as most women, and they …show more content…
The view of the wife of bath is much relevant to the view in this modern society, about all the things she did is mostly want to control over her husband in a marriage. Which someone who cannot be controlled would be a challenge, a female is likely to give what men desire. As for her, she is a selfish, immoral and power hungry person. No one can justify her even in this modern society