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The Canterbury Tales－The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath－－story of an old hag turning into a beautiful young lady in a twinkling of an eye Wealth and gentle birth are not important, a gentleman is one who does a gentle deed, poverty teaches one what is holy, and an old and plain woman may just as well make a loyal and true wife －－from The Wife of Bath The Canterbury Tales－The Wife of Bath The implication is that the beauty of the old hag may not be a physical one, but one that resides in her soul and that a man should love a woman for her worth rather than her face. The Canterbury Tales－The Wife of Bath The salient features of the woman: Huge sense of self-worth and her strenuous self-assertiveness in face of social disapproval; The way she dauntlessly contests the anti-women strances is ample indication of the potential of the female gender for growth. The Canterbury Tales－The Wife of Bath The symbolic meanings of the woman: An aggressive middle class person, for ever poised to bounce on the faintest opportunity of making a profit; An aggressive person with a vision about her future; An precursor of sorts to feminism who anticipates the womens lib movement by some five centuries; The Canterbury Tales－The Wife of Bath Ways to approach the gist: The story is an apt illustration of the Wife of Baths inner psychology; The very question about what woman want brings the female gender up from the bottom of society and places women on an equal footing with men. Chaucer seems to sense the inequality between the sexes and feels the lack of attention that womenfolk desrves. The Canterbury Tales－the Prelude “四月时分，甜蜜的阵雨飘落， 穿越干旱的三月，浸透了万物的根部，把强力酒精的每一根经络浸泡，草木发芽，渐次生花，西风吹出了甜美的气息，席卷了荒地和林丘；嫩枝和嫩叶，青春的阳光；在白羊星座走了一半的历程；无数小鸟通宵达旦睁着眼睛；此时齐声歌唱；（大自然骚扰它们躁动不安）；这时，人们渴望走上朝圣之路......” The Canterbury Tales－the Prelude The Canterbury Tales－the Prelude The Canterbury Tales－the Prelude Chaucer presents a pictu