In The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath seems to be one of the more vivacious characters on the pilgrimage. Dame Alice has radical views about women and marriage in a time when women were expected to be passive toward men. There are many things consistent between The Wife of Bath's prologue and her tale. The most apparent similarities that clearly depict the comparison between the prologue and the tale are …
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…Wife of Bath's Tale is fashioned to echo her life, or at least what she described of it in her prologue. The most compelling fact overall was the matching personalities and the lessons learnt by her husband, Jankyn and the knight. Although The Wife of Bath sometimes contradicts herself, essentially she comprehends the link amongst her prologue and tale, one could even view the contradictions as the way she had hoped her life would be.