Aom+The+Wife+of+Bath's+Tale

Part 1 - She tells the other pilgrims that she has been married five times and offers a history and justification of her numerous marriages. - have 5 husbands -first marriage is when she was 12. -  The Wife of Bath has her own views of Scripture and God’s plan. - she had thrice been to Jerusalem. - been to Rome and Boulogne - she travel alot - She acknowledges that Christ is perfect, but she is not; some women may be fine white bread, but she represents herself as a humble barley loaf. - She describes her first three husbands as old and rich, and prides herself in describing the control she has over them. Alisoun then speaks of her fourth husband, whom she fondly remembers torturing because she felt he robbed her of her youth and beauty. Her fifth husband, Jankyn, is described in the greatest detail; she says she loved him the most out of the five, despite their tumultuous relationship. - She notes how she first met him at her friend’s home while still married to her fourth husband and then ended up marrying him a month after her previous husband’s death. - she is intelligent, opinionated, and sensual. -the tale that she tell its explore what men marriage.

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http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/canterbury/section9.rhtml

Part 2 - the character is a wife. - Wife of Bath begins her description of her two “bad” husbands. Her fourth husband, whom she married when still young, was a reveler, and he had a “paramour,” or mistress - fifth husband, she has much more to say. She loved him, even though he treated her horribly and beat her. - When she first met this fifth husband, Jankyn, she was still married to her fourth -