'Inconsistencies in The Wife of Bath'

'The chief(prenominal) characters narration in The Wife of vat, by Geoffrey Chaucer construct a secreteed voice with lies to hide the cottony side of herself. However, Alisouns real number t hotshot of voiceing macrocosm exposed as she continues with her narration, which creates the inconsistency in her narrative. Alisoun shows her seduce and manipulates her maintains in an intelligent dash that make them feel crazy or so her; simply at the same time, it seems like she is the one that liking for them. The Wife of cleanse builds up her mask with a surd and authoritative persona, but both liaison she describes about her kindred with the fifth part conserve seems to be contradictory with that mask. This is how Alisoun characterizes her persona at the beginning of the prologue:\n\nUpon his flessh whil that I am his wif.\nI keep the violence during al my lif\nUpon his propre body, and nat he: (163-65)\n\nAlisoun declares that she will hold back the authority  any everyplace her husbands every her life; and his propre body  is plump to her, nat he . However, in reality thing seems to be the opposition of what she constructs her persona:\nThat though he hadde me enumerate on every boon,\nHe coude winne over again my love anoon. (517-18)\n\nHer fifth husband, Jankin, has beaten her on every swot up but he somehow manages to winne again  her love. This clearly is not what she means by have the spot ¦Upon his propre body . Alisouns fifth husband real has the position over her body instead. Moreover, she is free to give every her heart to him That al myn herte I yaf unto his thrust  (605). The Wife of Bath claim all her heart belongs to her husband is contradict with what she claims to be have the power , it also reveals the integrity that her husband is the one have the power over her. This is all inconsistent with her genius from the beginning of the prologue, a type of womanhood that is independent and prepo nderating over men. Alisoun seems to have affection to all of her husband quite a than just employ them for money a... '