Canterbury Tales is the story of a group of thirty people, including the host, who are traveling to the shrine of the martyr St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The motley crew is a mixture of contradictory personalities intricately described by Chaucer. Among these twenty-nine hikers there are two women. One of them is the flirtatious Prioress while the other is the partially deaf wife of Bath. While both women possess recognizable similarities, they both possess divergent personalities and experiences. The Prioress, known as Madam Eglantyne, has an elegant nose, a Lilliputian, soft, red mouth, a large forehead, and a glass-gray mouth. She wears a cape, a set of beads, and a pin that reads, "Love Conquers All." He is a sensitive, vain and artificial person who pretends to be rich. She is also stated to possess a flirtatious edge to her personality. The Wife of Bath, like the Prioress, is above all a lady. His clothes veer towards extravagance and affirm his great wealth. Like the Prioress, the Bathing Wife is affable, talkative, and an eloquent speaker. Like most people on pilgrimage, the Prioress and the Wife of Bath fill a contradictory role in society. Both are fragments of the corruption that lingered in the Middle Ages. The Prioress should have been a nun. However, the way she dressed and behaved testifies to the fact that she was a lady before being a holy nun. He also owned a dog, which he took everywhere. The Wife of is a lustful person who has had five husbands, but, ironically, is always the first in offerings during mass; she gets angry if someone precedes her. Inclusive, before telling his story, he talks about some details from the Bible...... middle of paper...... the Canterbury Tales. The author provides some insights into his wife's history in Bath. He describes his story as the story of his life. He calls it a story within a story because the Wife of Bath can metaphorically be considered the old hag of his story. He goes on to describe The Knight's Tale.Stearns, David P. "What do women want? Go ask Chaucer." Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) March 31, 2009. Source EBSCO newspaper. Network. November 12, 2011. This article is about a Chaucer-inspired play in New York. Talk about the difficulties of each of the actors, in particular the cast of the story Wife in Bath. We are talking about the scene where the knight is challenged by the queen to answer the question, what do women want, to spare his life. This source didn't help me because it focused on the feelings of the cast rather than the actual characters in the story.