No new tales to tell

            In the Wife of Bath women are treated on a lesser scale than men and that is no new issue. Still today we have women fighting for equal rights that they deserve. This issue has been forever a long haul to fight as much other discriminatory cases have. Just as the Wife of Bath had explained, the sense of understanding and power should be equalized. He creates this character to personify this strong idea. Often time feminism is taken out of proportion into sexism with women’s favor. Women should not be able to control men or have all the say. There needs to be a balance within a system of giving and taking. I believe that he focuses very strongly on this topic without directly saying that there needs to be reform. He shows within extremist examples of ‘what might be ’ within the civilization to show that equality as its potential. We read in class stories of the Anglo-Saxon culture and how women had no say whatsoever in any decisions; whether they be about the village, her family, or even herself. In 1919-20 women finally received the right to vote and continued to fight on from there. Today we have small outbreaks of women showing their passion towards this idea. Taking complete reform would probably be unnecessary in our times now, but this comes to show that women wanting their equal respects and right will seemingly forever be a topic. And tales will come following the same ideas.