Answer and Explanation:
1. Because she is a woman far ahead of her time, presenting women in positions that were not stimulated in society and that could shock listeners. Her story is about female freedom, wisdom and even sexual freedom and that was not something advocated in women at the time.
2. The king's punishment is for the knight to be executed for having abused a maiden against her will.
3. The queen begs the king for mercy. The irony in this is that no one imagined that the queen would impose a task so that the knight would not be executed, as readers might think that she would intercede for the knight only because she was kind and not a strategist as she proved to be.
4. Bath's wife claims that having the power to dominate is what binds women to men, because by dominating their husbands, women are able to satisfy their desires and enjoy everything that gives them pleasure. What the old woman values most is the loyalty between the couple
Answer:
A. Humor and criticism of society
Explanation:
I took the participation quiz and got it correct
Answer: The words of a wise man brings him honor, but a fool is destroyed by his own words.
Explanation:
The thing that the verse teaches us about our speech is that "the words of a wise man brings him honor, but a fool is destroyed by his own words".
When we listen to the words that comes from the mouth of a wise person, we derive benefit from listening because the person is wise unlike that of the fools and his words being about his destruction.
