The Wife of Bath Tale

This was one of my favorite stories since I have always loved the tales of King Arthur. I found the punishment that the queen gave the knight very interesting and I was intrigued to keep on reading. I wanted to see what Chaucer thought women wanted. This tale then reminded me of the movie "What Women Want". I thought the movie had come from the tale, but no. The movie is about a man that has to learn what women want in order to be able to make an advertisement for women products. He then gets electrocuted while using a blow dryer. He then is able to hear women's thoughts, therefore, it is helpful for him to create the advertisement for the products.

The movie told a modern and different story of the tale, but it was still based partially on the same thing: finding out what women want. As the story progresses and the knight goes to tell the queen his findings, I thought them to be very wrong. Maybe women do want to be in charge of their husbands and lovers, but that is not what they most want. I believe that women never know what they mostly want. Women are always confused in what they truly want, but that is why they are able to handle so many things at once.

Throughout the knight's journey he meets an old ugly woman that helps him with the answer. Since this woman is old and alone, and this story follows the prologue with the Wife of Bath, I believe that the old woman is the Wife of Bath. She completes the criteria of the Wife of Bath. After many years and many marriages, she has become old and ugly. She then goes to tell the knight that women mostly want to control their husbands and lovers, which is what she has always gone by. She believes that women want to be in control and that was how she ruled her marriages.