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The Wife of Bath: Secrets and Desires

The document discusses themes from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" including women's inability to keep secrets based on allusions to myths, virtues associated with birth, Pandora opening a box, Eve eating forbidden fruit, marriage, what men most desire in a wife, and debates around authority, experience, virginity and chastity in the context of the church.

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The Wife of Bath: Secrets and Desires

The document discusses themes from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" including women's inability to keep secrets based on allusions to myths, virtues associated with birth, Pandora opening a box, Eve eating forbidden fruit, marriage, what men most desire in a wife, and debates around authority, experience, virginity and chastity in the context of the church.

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Jimena Ferrario
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The Wife of Bath’s prologue and Tale

Women cannot keep secrets allusion to Midas story

Birth and virtue

Pandora opens the box

Eva eats from the forbidden food

Church

Equality

What is the thing that men most desire?

Beauty and loyalty and status and strength and young

One of the mysteries

Marriage

Authority vs experience

Virginity and chastity

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