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The Wife of bath is one of the well-known people from the Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury tales. The wife of baths occupation was a weaver but to her being a wife was a job because she was married all the time. This is in an older time period because they had to either make their own clothes or they had to buy their clothes from a weaver. The wife of bath was a good wife who had many husbands. Socially the woman was a very well-known person because of the fact that she dressed very richly.

Her daily life was pretty much weaving clothes and having men wait on her. Chaucer doesn't really include the wife of baths personality. He mainly describes her physical traits and how she likes to have men follow her around. If we had to figure out what her occupation would be today she would either be a sex therapist or a prostitute. She would be either of the two because she said she knew "all the remedies of love" and also she loved giving men pleasure from sex.

In Chaucer's prologue of The Wife Of Bath he discusses her marriage, virginity, and the question of sovereignty. Chaucer mainly describes her gap teeth, her many hats and her ten pounds of clothes. During that time her gap tooth symbolized sensuality (the enjoyment, expression, or pursuit of physical, especially sexual, pleasure.) and lust. He mainly described her clothes, her hips and also her feet. In the prologue it says "from the time that she was twelve, she has had five husbands." He didn't talk about her personality a lot but from what we have read, we believe that she is a prostitute. In company she loved to laugh and chat.

Some spelling variations from middle to modern English is: 1)In arrears means behind schedule in repaying debt 2)apothecaries was another word for pharmacists 3)Her gap-teeth was a sign of boldness and aptitude and love of travel 4)Ypres and Ghent was the Flemish centers of the wool trade and last but not least 5)Reeve was a serf who was the steward of a manor.

Chaucer had a really good opinion for the wife of bath. He called her "worthy and bold" which obviously is a good thing. If we were in today's time period and someone called another person gap-toothed and picked on them for their teeth it would make them sad. However, back in the day it was a sign of boldness and indicates "an aptitude of love and travel."

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