At the beginning of the prologue, the Wife of Bath says that "Experience, even if there were no authority in this world, would be a sufficient basis for me" (1 ). He is telling the pilgrims that he will use his experience to guide his arguments about marriage before telling the story. Although the Wife of Bath tries to contradict her misogynistic stereotypes, she actually unintentionally fulfills her medieval misogynistic stereotypes and reinforces the pilgrims that men should have control over women. The Wife of Bath goes against her misogynistic stereotypes. In the prologue, when the Wife of Bath speaks of her five husbands, she says, "Since I had them entirely in my hands, and since they had given me all their land, why should I take the trouble to please them, unless it be Like this?" should it be for my profit or pleasure?” (211) While her husbands donate their land to Alisoun, she has made no effort to make them feel better! She uses the word “pains” to show that it is something no one would want. She says she had them in her “hand” to show that she had control over her husbands. This fact contradicts the medieval misogyny she tells the pilgrims before her story to show that she is against misogyny medieval. The Wife of Bath unintentionally satisfies his misogynistic stereotypes. In the prologue he says that "God has expressly commanded us to increase and multiply" (27). by saying this he indirectly conveys that women are objects used to “grow and multiply”. Alisoun makes this message stronger by saying that it is God's desire. Even if he thinks that she... middle of paper... will appear in the minds of the gods. pilgrims. If Eve had been dominated and controlled, she would not have brought misery to humanity. By showing women's lack of morals by making them inferior, reminding the pilgrims of all the wicked wives in history, and telling a story that created questions in the minds of the pilgrims, the Wife of Bath reinforced for the pilgrims the dominance of men over women. of the things the Wife of Bath said, except those about reproduction to contradict her stereotypes, have one thing in common, they are all part of her experience. Alisoun would have been better off trying to contradict misogyny if she had only used authorities and not used her own experience to tell her life story. Since we are aware that the Wife of Bath is a fictional character, Chaucer could try to say that "experience can be deceiving" through a female character..