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Road Map

  • Reading List
  • The Wife of Bath


Test on Chaucer 13 February 2024

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Reading list 
Please hand in your definitive reading list on or before 16 Feb 202. 4
List the titles of your books, their authors, their years of publication and their number of pages. Only after having handed in the list are you allowed to plan your oral exam. E.g.
  • A Painted House by John Grisham (2001), 387 pages.
  • The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013), 491 pages.
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1926/1974), 188 pages.




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Slide 4 - Lien

The Wife of Bath

Summarise the story
What did you make of the story?

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The Wife of Bath
Do the assignments on p. 11



Finished? 
Read the Miller's Tale 
pp. 20 - 24
timer
28:00

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Do
Prepare yourself for class by reading pp. 20 to 24.


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The Wife of Bath
What choice does the old woman offer her husband, the knight?


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The Wife of Bath
'You have two choices ... to have me old and guly till I die, but still aloyal, true and humble wife that never will displease you in her life. Or would you rather I were young and pretty and chance your arm what happens in a city, where friends will visit you because of me...' (p.9)

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The Wife of Bath
How does the knight respond to this?

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The Wife of Bath
'My lady and my love, my dearest wife, I leave the matter to your wise decision. You make the choice yourself, for the provision of what may be agreeable and rich in honour to us both, I care not which'. 

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The Wife of Bath
Explain the wife's reaction.

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The Wife of Bath
She gives him both a beautiful and faithful wife because he remembered and acted on the secret of 'what women want'.

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The Wife of Bath
Moral implications? 
  • Zoom in on the Wife of Bath herself and 
  • Zoom in on the knight and
  • Zoom in on the old woman.

How are they portrayed? What are their actions? In what circumstances?





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Slide 15 - Vidéo