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LDeSantis - The Wife of Bath
by LDeSantis - (2014-05-07)
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The Miller was one of the thirty pilgrims of the Canterbury tales: The Canterbury tales is a narrative poem/ a work by Geoffry Chaucer. In his narrative poem Chaucer represented characters or stereotypes using the structure of the three orders of medieval society. The wife of Bath was a woman who used to make pilgrimages, indeed considering the text from line 20 to line  23, the reader can discover that she had already been in Rome, Boulogne, St James of Compostella   and Cologne. She was very skilled to weave and she was a little deaf. She dressed in a particular way, indeed she had on a very large headdress. She was a very elegant woman both in dress and in behavior, the rider can discover this considering line number 25. She lost all patience if anybody dares to precede her in making an offering maybe because she liked to appear, it also shows that she was married five times.