Characters
Literary Devices
Purpose of Today's Lesson
Recap of the Tale
100
the Wife of Bath/Alisoun
Who is telling the tale?
100
a lai
What kind of tale is the Wife of Bath telling?
100
to identify the roles of each character
What is the purpose of the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Friar, the Summoner, and the Host?
100
love, marriage, and her 5 husbands
What does Alisoun talk about in the prologue?
200
the knight
Who is the character that shows power and commits a crime in the beginning of the tale?
200
King Arthur
Who does Chaucer use as an allegory to set the tale in a fairytale-like place?
200
to learn the meaning of the tale
What is the purpose of going over the tale?
200
he takes the innocence of a young girl
Why is the knight sentenced to death?
300
King Arthur
Who is the King in the tale?
300
a man’s power over women when he deprives her of her virginity by force
What does the knight symbolize?
300
to understand the use of the literary devices
What is the purpose of learning the type of tale, symbolism, allegory, and "wyves" or "ladyes"?
300
one year (and one day)
How long does the queen give the knight for his journey?
400
the queen
Who is the character who symbolizes women's sovereignty and justice in the tale?
400
women’s sovereignty when she holds the power to either kill or spare the knight and judge his answer to her question
What does the queen symbolize?
400
it's a short romance (a lai)
What kind of tale is the Wife of Bath's tale compared to the other two we have already learned about?
400
an old woman who has a low status, is poor, and ugly
Describe who tells the knight the answer to the queen's question.
500
the Pardoner, Friar, Summoner, and Host
Who are the four characters who speak in the prologue other than the Wife of Bath?
500
“wyves” or “ladyes”
What is one of the words meaning "the language of fantasy"
500
Marriage isn't taken as serious in the earlier time periods, whereas getting married more than twice in our time period is looked upon as odd
How is marriage looked upon in the earlier time periods? What about the later?
500
women desire to have dominion over their husbands as well as their lovers, and to be above them in mastery
What is the answer to the queen's question?
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