Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath Chaucer portrays the Wife of Bath as if she is a hypocrite, although, beneath the words, there is a great deal of wisdom involved. The approach that I take, is the view that this tale is advice for women to take. This tale teaches women that there are times one should be a feminist and times you should not. If a women would be a feminist all her life, she …showed first 75 words of 422 total…

…showed last 75 words of 422 total…contradiction about the Wife of Bath. My view on The Wife of Bath is negative. I feel that this tale is very vulgar and contains too much involvement of sex. Besides the fact of the tales vulgarness the Wife of Bath was a well told story and the message was well received. This story might seem hypocritical at first, but between the lines there is some helpful advice for many women in the world today.