The Prioress (Nun) and the Wife of Bath comparison, Sintesi del corso di Inglese

Scarica The Prioress (Nun) and the Wife of Bath comparison e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The Prioress (Nun) and the Wife of Bath  The Prioress and the Wife of Bath are the only two female storytellers in this book​. Similarities and differences: ● Both the Prioress and the Wife of Bath are quite religious people, the Wife of Bath always tries to make her donation to the church before anyone else. She always tries to be first to church. ● They both love the thought of traveling and wealth, but only the Wife of Bath has really travelled, the Prioress would dream and aspire about living like the Wife of Bath who is truly royalty and lived in fortune for most of her life. In fact, The Wife of Bath was rich was in her mid-life, while the Prioress was poor and young ● Like the Wife of Bath, who was a fashionable woman, The Prioress is very elegantly dressed, but humbly compared to the Wife of Bath. ● The words used to describe the Prioress were: sweet, modest, friendly. This implies that she is quite a nice person or at least tries to appear that way. On the other hand the Wife of Bath is described using lwords like handsome, honorable, striking noble face, these words imply she wasn't very womanlike but she was noble and honorable. The words give a sense she has a good heart but doesn't look great. Poetic features S+D In both of the prologues for the women Chaucer used essentially the same poetic features, like the majority of the tales. ex rhyming ended with the same 3 or 4 letters.