Intro to ¨The Wife of Bath´s Tale¨

Introduction to ¨The Wife of Bath´s Tale¨

Open Ended

Theme: ¨Women desire_______¨

What is unique to this Tale?

This tale is one of the earliest feminist works of its time. Feminism is a political and social idea that advocates for women´s rights and strives for equality between the sexes.
This tale has a tale within a tale!

• ¨The Canterbury Tales¨ is a frame story

• A Frame story surrounds another story or group of stories.

• the frame story and individual stories interact.

Frame Story

​The Canterbury Tales

¨The Pardoner´s Tale¨

¨The Wife of Bath´s Tale¨

¨The Knight´s Tale¨

¨The Friar´s Tale¨

¨The Clerk´s Tale¨

¨The Miller´s Tale¨

• frame and individual tales interactions:

  • individual tales reflect the description of the storytellers´ personalities and lives

  • ¨The Wife of bath´s Tale¨ is a frame story

  • The setting may not match

• The wife of Bath sets her story during the reign of King Arthur.

Frame Story

The Knight

Midas

Drag and Drop

A

Placeholder

brackets another story or group of stories.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

frame story

allegory

narrative element

Archetypal Narrative Elements

1. ​A mysterious guide who helps point the way

2. Just ending that rewards good and punishes evil

3. character´s test of morality

4. characters, events or things that come in threes

Literary Devices

1. ​Imagery- detailed description to create an image in the mind of the readers

2. Symbolism- and idea or thing that represents something else

3. Metaphor- description of something by saying it is something else

4. Allusions- implied or direct reference

5. Verbal irony- when you say something but mean something else

   1. Tip for reading: the Wife of Bath speaks using verbal irony while telling her story

Multiple Choice

All the following are narrative elements within ¨The Wife of Bath´s Tale¨ except

• just ending

• hero´s journey

• mysterious guide

• test of a character´s morality

Tells (p.141)

​Relates(v.)

begged earnestly (p. 140)

​Implored(v.)

Vocabulary from the Text

hand down as an inheritance (p. 146)

​bequeath (v.)

Disrespectful, Scornful (p. 145)

contemptuous (adj.)

Vocabulary from the Text

highly respected; held in high regard (p. 147)

​Esteemed (adj.)

heroism; distinction (p. 147)

Prowess (n.)

Vocabulary from the Text

​Rebuke (v.)

criticize strongly (p. 149)

Match

Match the following

• Implored
• prowess

• contemptuous

• bequeath

begged earnestly

heroism; distinction

disrespectful, scornful

hand down as inheritance

• begged earnestly
• heroism; distinction

• disrespectful, scornful

• hand down as inheritance

Match

Match the following

• esteemed

• rebuke

• relates

highly respected

criticize strongly

tells

• highly respected

• criticize strongly

• tells