Answer:
Enduring hard times strengthens character.
Explanation:
The theme that can be found in both "If" and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is that enduring hard times strengthens character.
This is because, in IF and Jungle Book, there are circumstances that come up against the protagonists and other minor characters that sees hard times test their character and they finally triumphing and having their character strengthened.
In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," which of part of "The Canterbury Tales," by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Knight is ordered to find out what women most desire. That is how he meets the Wife of Bath. She is a well-off woman who has been married before, so she is quite experienced in love and sex matters. She is also wise, talkative and quarrelsome. Her previous marriages have made her able to supply for herself in a time in which women had little autonomy and strength. As a result, she is used to using her body to manipulate her husbands.
It is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases to make a point clear
I would say “Mocking” due to the use of rhetorical questions and almost sarcastic remarks
