The Wife of Baths Tale :: Canterbury Tales, Chaucer

The wifes life with her prime(prenominal) triad husbands (lines 193-451)The wife of bath begins this section by giving an account of her first third marriages. She treats her first three marriages as one marriage talk of the town about how she utilise the same techniques to control her husbands and does not refer to mortal people but a combination of all her first three husbands which she refers to as her husband. The wife begins, with a shockingly cynical statement, by communicate her audience that her first three husbands were good, because they were rich and old and easily controlled. The thre were goode men, and riche, and olde. This is really degrading to her husbands she did not care about them at all and is more than then willing to stand up in front of a crowd and degrade them. How pitously a-night I made hem swinke Her degradation of her husbands continues as she goes on to tell her audience how easily she controlled them by forcing them to give her their temporal possessions, And sith they hadde me yeven al hir lond. The wife then goes on to tell about how she used to cheat on her husbands and get away with it if anyone told by convincing them that the individual who told them was crazy by getting her friends to convince them she didnt. And take witnesse of hir owene maide. The wife was withal able to get her husbands to buy her new clothes and make up and any item she wanted by taking advantage of their frame nature. She would tell them that she was not respected like her neighbour was because she has not got so many nice things. I sitte at hoom, I have no thrifty clooth. The wife is very proud of her achievements at controlling her husbands and goes into spacious detail about how she makes up stories about her husbands getting drunk and contemptuous her. Thou comest hoom as dronken as a mous, and prechest on thy bench, with ivel preef she also says they aggravate marriage to women in general, saying you cant marry a scant(p) woman To wedde a povre womman, for costage and you cant marry rich women And if that she be riche, of heigh parage, thane seistow that it it a tormentrie to soffre hire pride and hire malencolie. The wife also says that her husbands use lilliputian arguments against her Thow seist that dropping houses, and eek smoke, and chiding wives maken men to flee.