The interaction between the wife of bath and the friar in the wife of bath's prologue is : part of Chaucer's frame story.
Because Chaucer's frame story includes the exchange between the Wife of Bath and the Friar in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue." What links exist between this passage in the prologue and the story itself? It has to do with how women were treated in the middle ages. It has to do with how women were viewed during the middle ages.
The Wife of Bath uses the prologue to present her main idea—that women most want total control ("sovereignty") over their husbands—as well as the foundations of her views about experience against authority. The Wife of Bath just accidentally reaches this conclusion. Her message is that, regardless of how attractive a woman is, her husband should always obey her.
In the 19th century the major Gothic novel were: Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White (1859) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and novellas such as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1871) and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).
