An Evaluation of the Wife of Bath Character

The Wife of Bath is an interesting character, both by the tale she tells and who she is. She tells her tale of a knight who had been given the quest for his life - to find what women desired most. Though she was known for not being a pure nor descent woman, due to the fact that she had had five husbands and many lovers on the side, she may have told her tale to help people to see that she was not a completely
horrible person, but had her reasons for the things that she had done.
Her interesting thoughts were shown through her tale about the knight whose punishment for his crime was to seek and find what women desired most. Told mainly to entertain, it had a good lesson to be
learned, that women desired equal rights, privileges, and respect. In her story, the knight had been
convicted of raping a maiden. …