| A | B |
|---|
| When did Chaucer write? | medieval |
| where did he travel b4 he wrote? | italy |
| where are all the pilgrims going? | thomas becket's grave |
| what do the pilgrims have in common? | pilgrimage |
| what are the differences of the pilgrims? | social status |
| how does chaucer intro each character? | prologue |
| what is physiognomy? | judging people by their appearance |
| who is the wife of bath? | alison |
| where is the wife from? | bath, england |
| what kind of person is she? | a whore |
| how do we know her moral character? | from her appearance (gap teeth) and the way she talks |
| what about her married life? | she has been married 5 times |
| what happened to her husbands? | 2 of them died of old age, one was murdered, and the other 2 she divorced |
| what are her arguments against virginity? | if all women were virgins than mankind would perish |
| what bible texts does she understand? | the ones that tells women to prosper and produce children |
| what is the story with her 5th husband? | he is her best husband but he beats her |
| how does she lose her hearing? | she gets hit on the head with a book |
| who interrupts the wife of bath b4 she can tell her story? | the friar |
| when is her story set? | roman |
| what crime does the knight commit? | he rapes a young virgin |
| what should the knight's sentence be? | death |
| what actually is the knight's sentence? | he has one year to find out what every woman wants or he dies |
| what sentences the knight? | the queen |
| how does the knight save his life? | he is told by an old woman; as long as he grants her wish |
| what transpires bw the knight and the old lady? | he grants her wish and they get married; she gives him a choice bw having her beautiful and unfaithful or faithful and ugly; he gets the best of both worlds |
| what is it that women most desire? | to be better than men |
