The Wife of Bath's

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On the other hand, with her last two husbands, the Wife got her sexual desires fulfilled, but there’s a huge question mark about her mastery of her younger husbands. Her relationship with her fifth, and last husband, is a prime example of this contradiction. When John, her fifth husband, hit her it was apparent to the reader, and to me, that she wasn’t in the very blissful marriage as seen here ...Then like a maddened lion, with a yell he started up and smote I on the head and down I fell upon the floor for dead. And when he saw how motionless I lay he was aghast and would have flown away, but in the end, I started coming to.... (297) here, it’s evident to me that the Wife was very submissive in this marriage and that her husband is the one who shows the mastery. What didn’t surprise me at the end of her prologue was the fact that everything was sweet and rosy and that nothing else could go wrong in the marriage: ... We had a mort of trouble and heavy weather but in the end made ...

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