Answer: Power over their husbands
Explanation: Based on the above quote, what women in "The Wife of Bath's Tale", desire most is <u><em>power over their husbands</em></u>. This is one of the tales from "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The knight who answers was condemned by the Queen to be beheaded or study women for a whole year to learn what they desire most. He is asked after the year and being his answer correct he is freed from being beheaded.
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C, Advance
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Advance is the opposite of retreat. The others don't apply to this question. Hope this helped :)
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1. Roger Chillingworth is a man deficient in human warmth. His twisted, stooped, deformed shoulders mirror his distorted soul. From what the reader is told of his early years with Hester, he was a difficult husband.
2.Hester Prynne is beautiful, her beauty barely compares to her strength of character. Even when she is punished for her crime of adultery and publicly humiliated by being forced to wear a scarlet A on her chest, Hester does not break. She remains exactly who she is: strong, kind, proud, but also humble.
3.Dimmesdale, the personification of "human frailty and sorrow," is young, pale, and physically delicate. He has large, melancholy eyes and a tremulous mouth, suggesting great sensitivity. An ordained Puritan minister, he is well educated, and he has a philosophical turn of mind.
4.The illegitimate daughter of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Pearl serves as a symbol of her mother's shame and triumph. At one point the narrator describes Pearl as "the scarlet letter endowed with life." Like the letter, Pearl is the public consequence of Hester's very private sin.
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