Overview
This is the name of the character telling the tale.
Who is the Wife of Bath?
The Knight's grave decision in the woods involved this serious crime.
What is rape?
Queen Guinevere challenges the Knight to find out what this group desires most.
Who are women?
This character demands that the Knight marry her after helping him.
Who is the old woman?
The central lesson of the story regarding women's desires is that they seek this.
What is sovereignty?
This work includes The Wife of Bath's Tale.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
As a result of his actions, he faced this punishment.
What is death?
Queen Guinevere gives the Knight this amount of time to complete his task.
What is a year and a day?
The old woman conditions her help on this requirement from the Knight.
What is that he must do whatever she wants?
This literary device is illustrated through the old woman's transformation.
What is a fairy tale element?
The Wife of Bath shares her perspective primarily about this subject.
What is marriage and women's desires?
The queen who sentences the Knight for his crime is named this.
Who is Queen Guinevere?
The Knight sets out to ask every woman he can find, but receives answers that are this.
What is incomplete?
The Knight initially feels this way about marrying the old woman.
What is unhappy?
The tale critiques men's attitudes towards women through this literary device.
What is irony?
The Wife of Bath has been married this many times.
What is six?
The Knight was initially faced with this consequence by the queen.
What is execution?
The Knight ultimately accepted the Queen's challenge instead of facing this.
What is execution?
The old woman offers the Knight a choice between two types of women.
What is old and ugly or young and beautiful?
The old woman's transformation represents the importance of this in a relationship.
What is mutual respect?
The Wife of Bath's tale is part of a collection of stories told during this event.
What is a pilgrimage?
This is the setting where the Knight makes his decision to commit his crime.
What are the woods?
The Knight learns that women desire this quality in their relationships.
What is sovereignty?
The Knight ultimately chooses this when given the old woman’s two options.
What is “whatever pleases you suffices me”?
This overarching theme reflects the Wife of Bath’s personal experiences.
What is women's desire for control in their relationships?