Just in case...

So I'm trying to form my argument about whether the Wife of Bath is good or bad and I'm finding that it's not as easy as it seems. I want to spend more focused time on it this weekend when I'm not as stressed out over work thats due tomorrow. So just so anyone who browses through that may be wondering what I think of the Wife of Bath, I am still tweaking my argument and hoping thats it's not due 'til Sunday! *crosses fingers* Goodnight!

Late night ramblings about women in the Middle Ages

So I finished my homework for my other classes and wasn't ready to start working on my argument yet so I started browsing around the net about the Middle Ages. And came across another cool site. This one is about legal issues with women. And how they were represented. It also talks about some of things we discussed about women going from be in subjection to their father straight to their husband. For some reason it reminded me of Rachel's mom off the tv-show friends when she said "I went from my parents house, to the sorority house, to my husbands house..." she went on to say how she didn't know much about herself really or ever had a chance to just 'be' without regulation. And even though she wasn't forced to live that way it kind of connects. Anyway these are my late night thoughts on women in the middle ages.

http://www.knowledge4africa.co.za/worldhistory/middle-ages04.htm

Women in the 15th Century

I was browsing around again and came across this site where a man has written all about how women were treated or looked at back then. I find it fascinating some of the things he says about women and their sexual appetites but how they are surpressed due to the fact that have to be "ladies." Very interesting stuff and not only is about women and there desires but much more. Check it out! http://www.lepg.org/herstory.htm

Interesting websites for Wife of Bath

So I was searching around a bit and found some very interesting essays, one written by a college student for English 150 at Gettysburg College and another written by a man George Lyman Kittredge. http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/franklin/marriage.html On this site he discusses Chaucer's view of marriage and how the Wife of Bath explains herself and how her marriages have interesting connections to others in his tale. http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/jblake.htm In this students essay he discusses the fight for equal treatment of women. It is a very interesting essay bringing out more reasons how the Wife of Bath fights for her beliefs and proves that men are treated differently. Read them I'm sure they will help give us more to think about as we continue to study the tale!