Question

Does Chaucer’s “wife of bath tale” challenge or perpetuate gender stereotypes?provide evidence please

Answer 1

Answer:

Chaucher's 'Wife of Bath Tale' challenges the gender stereotypes.

Explanation:

The Wife of a Bath’s Tale is amongst one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. This tale is based upon gender roles, love, marriage, and human desire.

In this tale, Chaucer have challenged the gender stereotypes and this could be concluded from some of the following incidences from the novel. Firstly, according to ancient thinking, a man can marry more than one woman but woman cannot. But this his tale we can see how the wife already had three marriages and was looking forward for another marriage.

Chaucher’s wife is seen as defending the age old norms of being a typical wife and she comes up with her own modern perspectives towards marriage and sex.