In everything. The pilgrims therefore responded very favourably to this suggestion, and in fact were pleased to let the host assume control of both this storytelling competition and also the other arrangements that needed to be dealt with on their journey as they made their way.

In The Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims agree to tell tales during the journey to. preserve their stories for the future. win a free meal and entertain one another.

Some of the lessons are love conquers all, lust only gets you in trouble, religion and morality is virtuous, and honor and honesty is valued. Although there are some contradictory stories, Chaucer kept to this set of morals through most of his tales.

four tales

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the prize for telling the best tale on their pilgrimage was a free dinner, paid for by all who are going on the journey to Canterbury.

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. After almost a year of searching for the answer of what women want the most, the knight has given up and accepted his fate.

With broad hips, a big butt, and a hat as big as a boat, she takes up a lot of space in the pilgrimage and in the poem as a whole. The Wife is dressed expensively in scarlet stockings and shoes of soft, new leather, and she has a penchant for fine, large headgear that Chaucer estimates weighs about ten pounds.

five husbands

women in the know are able to control their husbands and that is the natural order in a marriage. What was wrong with the second to last husband? He cheated on her. He beat her.

What did her fourth husband do? He kept a lover, but one day died on a pilgrimage. He encouraged her work as a seamstress and bought her a store. He disappeared one day and after three years she got their marriage annulled.

The Wife of Bath begins her description of her two “bad” husbands. Realizing that she has digressed, she returns to the story of her fourth husband. She confesses that she was his purgatory on Earth, always trying to make him jealous. He died while she was on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

What must the knight do to save his life? To answer the question “What is the thing that women most desire?” How long does the knight have to find an answer? The old woman tells the tale of Midas.