Wife of Bath

The Wife of Bath is my favorite character, without question. She’s an expert in all things relating to marriage and doesn’t care about authority, therefore, making her experiences far more worthwhile. In the time of Chaucer, women didn’t have many options when it comes to free will, so divorce was out of the question. But the Wife has been married five times, and I like how she takes the scripture of God and turns it around to benefit her. Nowhere in the bible can she find where it says women can’t be married more than once, so obviously, she’s the most reasonable human being in the Canterbury Tales. I also appreciate that the Wife is someone who has gone through a lot of hardships in her life, therefore losing her beauty, but she can live her life by her standards, and no one is going to diminish her happiness.