3/5/13

     First, I must say that I really don't like her character from the reading. To me, she sounds like a gold digger and a "insert bad word here". She uses sex to control her first three husbands. The fourth one could control himself. She also married them for their money, gold digger. The last one she married for love so he was a different case.

Wife of Bath (http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/wife.gif)

     When she begins to speak about marriage and laws of marriage she decides that the Medieval Church is wrong on its view of marriage. She uses the Old Testament as a way to help prove her point on their first fallacy. She uses Solomon as her main example of this. Solomon was the wisest king in history according to the bible, besides Jesus. Yet, he had more wives than any other man in history. She uses him as an example against the church saying that one should only be married once. 
     The second fallacy that I noticed that she uses is when God told man and the animals to be fruitful and multiply. She takes this to an extreme in my opinion. She thinks it as if man is like a beast and should be able to multiply with as many partners as they see fit. Only those who are to be perfect like Jesus should not be allowed to do this.
     I believe that she would really like the song, Maneater by Daryl Hall and John Oates. This song in my opinion describes her completely. The woman goes through man after man taking what they have and is not effected by the men at all, just like she did with her first four husbands. They may have even written this song after reading her prologue, just kidding. The song just describes how the maneater is watching her prey and learning how to manipulate the man, like she used sex to manipulate her first three husbands. I believe that she would like the song simply because it is about herself. In my opinion she seems very stuck on herself.
      Maneater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek

She'll only come out at night
The lean and hungry type
Nothing is new, I've seen her here before
Watching and waiting
Ooh, she's sittin' with you but her eyes are on the door
So many have paid to see
What you think you're gettin' for free
The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a Jaguar
Money's the matter
If you're in it for love, you ain't gonna get too far
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Watch out boy she'll chew you up
(Oh-oh, here she comes) She's a maneater
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Watch out boy she'll chew you up
(Oh-oh, here she comes) She's a maneater
I wouldn't if I were you
I know what she can do
She's deadly man, she could really rip your world apart
Mind over matter
Ooh, the beauty is there but a beast is in the heart
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Watch out boy she'll chew you up
(Oh-oh, here she comes) She's a maneater
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Watch out boy she'll chew you up
(Oh-oh, here she comes) She's a maneater
------ saxophone ------
Ooh,
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Here she comes, Watch out boy she'll chew you
up
(Whoa-oh, here she comes. Watch out) She's a maneater
(Oh-oh, here she comes. She's a maneater) Ooh, she'll chew you up
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Here she comes, she's a maneater
(Oh-oh, here she comes. Watch out) She'll only come out at night, ooh
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Here she comes, she's a maneater
(Oh-oh, here she comes. She's a maneater) The woman is wild, woo
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Here she comes. Watch out boy, watch out boy
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Oh, watch out, watch out, watch out, watch
out
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Yeah, yeah, she's a maneater
(Oh-oh, here she comes. She's a maneater) She's watching and waiting,
ooh
(Oh-oh, here she comes) Oh, she's a maneater
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