Liz’s Blog

This past week, we had two groups present their Canterbury Tales projects.  Each group did a fantastic job and I learned a lot about each tale from hearing their presentations.  After reading each tale there were a few things I didn’t pick up on, but each group covered every aspect of their tale. However, there [...]

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The Wife of Bath was a product of its time because Chaucer had her talk about things that women wouldn’t have talked about before this time period. This was one of the first stories written where the women characters were openly discussing their marriage and sex lives. The wife talks many times about how [...]

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Our project is going really well so far.  We have done a close reading and a drawing.  We drew a big picture of what we thought the wife of bath looked like according to her description in the general prologue.   Then we found quotes that explained her physical appearance and than what she thought [...]

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Ok.  So, The Wife of Bath’s prologue is twice as long as her tale.  I think this is because the focus is more on the wife than on the actual tale.  We learn so much about the wife through the prologue.  Her ideas and beliefs are reflected in the tale.  She has control over her [...]

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My group is reading The Wife of Bath, and it is honestly a lot easier to read than I thought it would be.I was really glad I got to read this one, because I have heard a lot of things about it.  I have heard that it is really entertaining and the wife is pretty [...]

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The general prologue of The Canterbury Tales set the scene for the story and introduced all of the characters that would be in the story.  This story is the tales of people of all different classes on a pilgrimage to Canterbury.  Chaucer wanted each person to tell two tales on the way and two tales on the [...]

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