The 'Wife of Bath's Tale' is told to show what women most desire. Throughout her tale, traditional values of leadership and supremacy are reversed. In the 'Wife of Bath's Tale,' it is the queen and the ladies of the court who serve as justices and determine the punishment for the knight instead of King Arthur
Repression experienced by a minority often leads to protest. Without sufficient resolution of the dispute, a social criticism can be formulated, often covered by political groups (political monopoly). For protesting people within a social movement, it is often frustrating to experience failure of the movement and its own agenda.
The positivism dispute between critical rationalism, e.g. between Karl Popper and the Frankfurt School, is the academic form of the same discrepancy. This dispute deals with the question of whether research in the social sciences should be "neutral" or consciously adopt a partisan view
