1207- 1228 Flashcards
(3 cards)
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About
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-the host hopes to be preserved from a wife like may
- all women are full of tricks to deceive men as the tale proves
- he himself ha a wife who though poor has a number of vices
- he regrets ever marrying her and would tell the company why except that is would e bound to get back to her, she he’s resolves to let the matter go
2
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“ keep me from lo which tricks and cunning in woman been”
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His take anti feminists response to the superficial level of the plot and a corroboration of the merchants narraratioal position which ignores the wider allegorical and mythical dimension
3
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“ a labbing shrewe is she” “ chaffare”
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- his description of his own wife so far goes is in many respects a cruder example of anti feminism than the merchants own
-the word chaffare does encod the wider themes associated woth chaucers satire of mercantile values as it suggests metaphorically that problems arise with relations between the sexes when the vales of religion an romance are put on one side and everything is seen as a matter of business or trade.
