Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a very envious women, who desires only a few simple things in life.She likes to make mirror images of herself, through her stories, which in some way reflects the person who she really is. This is all proven_through the many ways she portrays her characters. The Wife of Bath desires the obvious in life, but what she most desires above all is being …
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…In conclusion, the wife wants what every woman wants in a relationship; power. Because of this desire for power she becomes jealous of the hag, whom she identifies with.She wishes that even though she is ugly, as the hag is, she can have the power that the hag has.That she may be given from her partner the power to make the decisions and the choices and not have that taken away from her.