The One and Only Wife of Bath In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses The Wife of Bath as a representation of what it was like for women in the Middle Ages to be deprived of equality and bow to the otherwise male-dominated society. For the representation of women Chaucer uses the tales of "The Scholar", "The Second Nun", "The Reeve's" and "The Franklin" and many others in a very dry and pretentious way to guide the readers into seeing how a woman of the Middle Ages should be a so-called “virtuous” wife or woman. The concept of marriage plays an important role in manifesting the idea of ​​women's inferiority problems. The perception rendered as women having to be an obedient and inferior figure to their husbands or male counterparts. Chaucer gives the audience a lot to think about in terms of The Wife of Baths as she is the exact opposite of the women of her time. Baths' wife can be seen as a maternal figure who possesses a threat of disruption in the social system by empowering the status of women. In the Wife of Baths prologue, her true colors are revealed, giving the reader a sense of who the Wife of Bath is. is and where her mind is at in terms of gender inequality. His prologue also charts the path to the direction his story will take. The Wife of Bath makes it clear that she, more than anyone, has experience in the matrimonial field and already from her tone it is clear that she is a woman with a desire for authority. The Wife's Prologue is the framework that allows space to make distinctions on all the issues faced by women in the Middle Ages and indeed with its warm and well-defined details it has become an unforgettable icon of the Canterbury Tales. One suspects that the Wife of Bath is a firm believer in the idea... middle of paper... that society was not ready to cede control of marriage to a woman, which is why Dorigen's husband was forced to do it. keep the matter secret, but he's as close to being modern as the Wife of Bath is than Griselda's husband the Scholar. It compliments Chaucer's modernistic way of thinking in terms of women and their roles. Although the Wife of Bath is slightly flawed as it shows the disconnect between women, society and Christianity. The Wife of Bath cannot gain approval from society because she is a woman and she cannot gain enlightenment from a church because she is an impure woman married to five different husbands, clearly women in Chaucer's society have no power unless do not challenge the system, including the church otherwise there is no liberation. Chaucer understands this and blessed literature with the one and only heroine, the Wife of Bath.