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What is the treatment of women like in Chaucer's "Wife of Bath" and Arthurian romances?

Are they similar of different? What might be the cause?

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In this solution, Chaucer's "Wife of Bath" is briefly examined in terms of critical reactions.

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Many scholars are split on the role of women in Chaucer's works, especially in "The Wife of Bath." However, I interpret some of the Wife's ideas as quite feminist and bolder than traditional Arthurian tales as she seems to defend females against clerical enemies and rigid social conventions.

I feel like she shows witty, bold intellect and seems to challenge the roles of medieval women as merely inferior to men or only submissive ...

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