ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENT OF THE CHARACTERIZATION

Right from the title the reader can understand relevant information about the woman status: she is Wife and she comes from the city of Bath.

The characterization is organized into rhyming couplets.

The narrator starts the characterization defining her a “worthy” woman, the adjective ads value to the character. And it is reinforce by the alliteration of the sound ‘w’. 

The narrator informs the reader that she comes from Bath and she was unfortunately. The insistence of the alliteration of the sound ‘w’ underlines that the introductory peculiarity of the woman is her value. 

Immediately followed  by the narrator referees to her ability in making clothes. The intelligent reader immediately realize the narrator likes underlining her great and positive results. She isn’t only worthy but she is bettered. 

After that Chaucer starts to describe her clothes and her appearance.

His clothes are make of a great quality (line 9), and they are very expensive because the clothes were made from a particular woven. Her shoes are soft and new to show to all the people her prosperity. 

After that Chaucer described physical aspect of the woman.

He had a lot of physical canons for example “he had a gap teeth”, the space between the front teeth, or “handsome” (line 14), this adjective is used for a male beauty, this choice of the adjective could be underlines his character.  

Finally Chaucer describes her behavior in the company of pilgrims, saying that she likes laughing and chatting, and in particular she is an expert in love affairs, since she knows the oldest dances of love art.            

Well, Chaucer builds the characterization of the Wife of Bath thanks to the description of her appearance, in particular her clothes, and her behavior.