2. Only 2 kinds of women; Virgins and Sinners Women were agents of the Devil, to be blamed for man-kind’s downfalls Physical abuse was believed to be necessary to handle a woman. HISTORY

3. Scripture and works of antiquity are used as justification. Story of the Samaritan and Jesus at the well,stories of Mark(John), and Solomon Admits to using marriage as a means of control. Wife of Bath’s Prologue is based in the medieval genre of allegorical “confession.” Flaunts her manipulative skills Seemingly scholarly, Chaucer uses the wife to mock the churchmen present, who often misused Scripture to justify their devious actions. (Sparknotes.com) THE WIFE OF BATH: PROLOGUE

4. THE KNIGHT

5. THE QUEEN

6. THE OLD HAG

7. THE TALE