THE WIFE OF BATH

The Wife of Bath’s Prologue introduces one of the most vivid character of The Canterbury Tales and both draws from and critiques the long medieval tradition of antifeminist texts. The woman of Bath has traveled the world on a pilgrimage (in Jerusalem was, Boulogne, Rome, St. James in Galicia and to Cologne), and Canterbury thus appears as a play than previous trips. The woman then says not only she has seen many lands, but has also led five different husbands in the church (which means that all her previous husbands are dead) and have had other lovers in their youth. It is therefore a worldly woman in every sense, she made his own experiences with men from around the world. Geoffrey Chaucer makes us understand that the "wife of Bath" undertook these pilgrimages more to meet new men for a purely religious order, which outlines a profile of a woman living, daring and mundane, in addition to this, the author makes us known his character and self-centered cocky with a description in detail the clothes he was wearing nothing short of outrageous to get noticed and claim to be always the first in church, to make an offer. So the “wife of Bath”does not behave as she should in any of her marriages The simple fact that she is a widow who remarries more than once suggests a relationship with antifeminist traditions . In this characterization the narrator uses irony to underline the materialism of this character .