Weak versus woman

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[...] When he concluded that, woman wants the selfsame sovereignty / Over her husband as over her lover, / And master him; he must not be above 131) he realized that they women think for themselves and have hopes and wants. The second example is with the old hag that the knight encounters. His first and longstanding reaction to her is that she is ugly, old, and poor. He only saw what she appeared to be without taking into consideration her mind and soul. [...]

[...] / No one can be so bond I mean no man - / At lies and swearing as a woman can. / This is no news, as you'll have realized, / To knowing ones, but to the misadvised. / A knowing wife if worth her salt / Can always prove her husband is at fault 123) She teaches the other women what men have been doing to them for centuries. She is preaching to turn it around and use it on them. [...]

[...] Weak versus woman First appearances prove to be more often false or incorrect. It is the effort of going beyond the exterior appearance and discovering the real person underneath. Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales, demonstrated the relationship between natural appearance and the actual reality in the Wife of Bath. Both the prologue and the tale are perfect examples, of the general term, of showing circumstances and characters (people's character) differently then they really are. In the tale itself Chaucer's main focus is the appearance of women in society and the literal sense of “don't judge a book by its cover.” The most substantial usage of appearance versus reality, however, is in the prologue with the Wife explaining women in a new light and all that they are. [...]