Q. What happens in the end to the knight and the old woman?
What happens at the end? The old woman becomes young and beautiful and they live happily ever after. The old woman decides the knight will never love her and leaves, and the knight meets the love of his life the next day.
Q. What is the moral lesson of the Wife of Bath’s Tale?
The morals in the Wife’s tale are usually said to be that (1) women desire dominance over men, or, to use the Old English word, women desire “sovereintee” over men and that (2) granting women dominance over men is in the best interest of men.
Q. What is the moral of the tale told by the Wife of Bath?
The Wife of Bath’s Tale’s Lesson The moral of this tale is that “women want to be in charge of their men,” as shown by the old hag in the tale. She warns that women who do not have power will die. She warns that men and women should love each other unconditionally. She warns that men are liars.
Q. What’s the moral of the Wife of Bath’s Tale?
Q. What is the moral of the story the Wife of Bath’s Tale?
Q. How does the wife poke fun at the Friar on the trip?
The fairies got raped by the friars so they aren’t spirits aymore 3. How does the Wife poke fun at the Friar on the trip? The wife pokes fun at the friar during the trip and told him “hell shut up” then she told him an irrelevant story 4.
Q. Why does the Wife of Bath’s include the story about King Midas donkey ears?
The wife of Bath includes the story of King Midas’ donkey ears because she wanted to prove that women cannot keep secrets 12. The bargain between the Knight and the old woman is she will give him the answer to the riddle, but he has to do whatever she asks, which is for him to marry her.
Q. What reason does the Knight first give for being unable to marry the old woman?
What is the first reason the knight gives for being unable to marry the woman? She is too old and ugly. He is of higher rank than she. God has forbidden him to wed.
Q. What rationale does she give for always getting remarried when she says that God bade us all to wax and multiply?
3. What rationale does she give for always getting remarried when she says that “God bade us all to wax and multiply”? When she said this she meant that God commamnded people to reproduce and you reproduce by having sex. Also, people can interpret the bible however they want.
Q. What does the wife of Bath mean when he says that not every dish and vessel’s made of gold?
The prologue for the Wife of Bath is all about marriage. Therefore implying that the Wife of Bath is nowhere near perfect and more of a disgrace. She tells the analogy that “in a noble’s household, we are told not every dish and vessel’s made of gold, some are of wood, yet earn their master’s praise” (261).
Q. How did the Wife of Bath finally manage to get the upper hand over husband number five?
She fell to the floor and pretended to be dead. When he bent over her, she hit him once more and again pretended to die. He was so upset that he promised her anything if she would live. And this is how she gained “sovereignty” over her fifth husband.
Q. What offer does the old lady make to the knight on his wedding night?
The Old Woman then calls into question the Knight’s virtue and his behavior with regard to being a knight. He is not living up to the knight’s code of chivalry or to his wealth and status. She offers him a new deal: the choice of loyalty and faithfulness from his wife OR the worry of unfaithfulness because of beauty.
Q. What final choice does the old woman offer the knight at the end of the tale what is his response?
What final choice does the old woman offer the Knight at the end of the table? What is his response? SHE SCOLDS HIM AND ENDS UP OFFERING TO HAVE HER OLD OR UGLY YET FAITHFUL.
Q. What vow do the three rioters make to each other?
The Three Rioters Timeline and Summary After recalling all of the deaths Death has caused throughout the countryside, the Rioters swear a pact of brotherhood and make a plan to seek out and kill Death. On the way to find Death, they meet with an Old Man and treat him rudely, asking why he is so old.
Q. What do the two rioters decide to do after?
What do the two rioters decide to do after they have sent their friend for food and wine? They decide to literally stab their friend in the back to kill him for his share of the gold.
Q. What is the moral of the story the Pardoner tale?
The overt moral lesson in “The Pardoner’s Tale” is that greed is the root of all evil, as it is explicitly stated by the pardoner. In addition, gluttony, drunkeness, gambling and swearing are each discussed in the “Prologue to the Pardoner’s Tale” as moral vices to be avoided.
Q. What is the most valid moral in the Pardoner tale?
The moral I find in “The Pardoner’s Tale” that is most applicable today is that even sinners desire forgiveness and wish to lead better lives. This lesson is shown in the ironic contrast between the tale the Pardoner tells and the way he lives his life.
Q. How does the Wife of Bath defend her multiple marriages?
She would withhold sex or accuse her spouse of the time of cheating in order to manipulate him, and this usually worked. She also tended to control the purse strings in the marriage. Her last two husbands were anomalies.
