Friday 27 September 2013

The Wife of Bath

- Fat, fair, and likes the colour red (romance)
- Gaps between her teeth suggest morality
- Her horse suggest she has wealth
- Well travelled, means wealth
- Married 5 times
- Cloth making is her trade
    - 'She passed hem of Ypres and Gaunt' 
- Similar to friar, monk and prioress
    - How does she fit in, with her religious beliefs?
- Un-holy to be married more than once, banned in church
- Knows the dance of love, why should she know this?
- Been on many other pilgrimages
    - First at the alter when in mass
    - Would suggest she is religious
    - Seen as a sinner in the eyes of the church
- Divorce was illegal (couldn't happen)
    - What has happened to her previous husbands? 
    - Dead?
    - Suspicious deaths, she might be marrying for money
- Why was she married so much? (epitome of a female sinner)
- How did she have so much money?
- Why has she been on so many pilgrimages previously?
- If she was a commoner how did she get fat and acquire a horse?




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