Monday, February 11, 2013
The Wife of Bath's Tale
This story starts out with a knight going on quest and he took a woman by force. the punishment normally would be to behead the man, but the queen begged the king to let the knight be his, to kill or save. she got her wish and she said she will let him live if he could find out what it was that woman wanted the most. The knight set out and found a old woman and she said "i will tell you most what women want if you do me a favor if the answer is correct, he agreed and brought the answer to the queen. The answer was that woman want to govern over their own husbands, and he was right, he returned to the old woman and said what do you want from me, she said she want him to be her husband he wanted anything but that, but in the end, he was a man of his word and he was unpleased, and by the end of the story, she teaches the man a lesson to let the woman govern over the man, he said to her do as you please be this or that and she became young and his faithful and lovable wife.
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