{"id":27071,"date":"2024-05-29T19:47:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/how-does-the-clerks-tale-and-prologue-challenge-or-respond-to-the-wife-of-baths-tale-and-prologue\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T19:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:47:03","slug":"how-does-the-clerks-tale-and-prologue-challenge-or-respond-to-the-wife-of-baths-tale-and-prologue","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/how-does-the-clerks-tale-and-prologue-challenge-or-respond-to-the-wife-of-baths-tale-and-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"How does The Clerk’s tale and prologue challenge or respond to The Wife of Bath’s Tale and prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigate the Clerk\u2019s prologue, tale, and envoy. Construct a thesis that focuses on<\/span> <\/span>one key way<\/span> <\/span>it could<\/span>
be understood as a response to the Wife of Bath\u2019s Prologue and Tale. Explain how the Clerk\u2019s material<\/span>
connects, contrasts, or resonates with, an important idea in the WofB material. (You are NOT choosing a<\/span>
character or characters to discuss as the primary contrast (they will be evidence to support the main idea).<\/span>
You could, for example, examine the nature of power in the Clerk\u2019s Tale, explaining the Clerk\u2019s assessment<\/span>
as a response to the WofB; consider the nature of love in the Clerk\u2019s Tale and it\u2019s relationship to the WofB\u2019s<\/span>
assessments and statements; consider the role of \u2018abuse\u2019 in both texts and assess \u2018to what extent does the<\/span>
Clerk\u2019s material respond to\/\u2019quyte\u2019 the Wof B\u2019s use of \u2018abuse\u2019 in her Prologue and Tale?; consider the role<\/span>
of class in the Clerk\u2019s Tale: how does class help him shape the tale and its meanings? How might that be a<\/span>
response to the WofB\u2019s statements and uses of class in her material?; etc. Remember you are focusing on the<\/span>
Clerk\u2019s prologue, tale, envoy, and the way this material can be understood as a response. (Check with me if<\/span>
you are unsure about either the main idea you choose OR your plan for argument development.) Go beyond<\/span>
what’s easy to see and immediately observe with plot\/character (so you might find key words\/terms, imagery,<\/span>
form, or textual details to assist your assessment). Focus your paper with a thesis that governs all parts of<\/span>
your discussion. Check that you have a thesis that focuses on just ONE key way the Clerk material can be<\/span>
understood as a response to the WofB. You might acknowledge other ways very briefly but your paper<\/span>
should develop just one resonance predominantly. Exploring one dynamic thoroughly will help you develop<\/span>
an idea rather than brush past several in a general way. Be sure ALL assertions and discussions in your paper<\/span>
help further ONE thesis<\/span><\/p>\n

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The paper will make clear how the WofB challenges typical gender roles (for wives!).  But in many ways she actually performs the culture’s assumptions about women: that they are hard to control, that they have little self-control, that they gossip, that they lie, that they are weak and can be drawn into sexual relations with others beyond marriage, that they hen-peck their husbands and so on.  So be sure to speak fully, acknowledging nuance here. It’s the seeking of power that’s especially transgressive.<\/div>\n

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Then, I think the paper could explore both Alisoun’s behaviors in marriages and Griselde’s.  When you speak of Griselde’s, at some point you’ll have to contend with the difficulty raised in Allen Mitchell’s essay material and with the Clerk-narrator’s statements that her behavior is extreme and not to be followed.  You might hear that tone as satiric, though, and feel he’s actually satirizing women who would not submit to husbands…..anyway, be sure to tackle some of the difficult assertions the Clerk makes about Griselde’s submission at the very end of the tale and in the Envoy.<\/div>\n


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Investigate the Clerk\u2019s prologue, tale, and envoy. Construct a thesis that focuses on one key way it couldbe understood as a response to the Wife of Bath\u2019s Prologue and Tale. Explain how the Clerk\u2019s materialconnects, contrasts, or resonates with, an important idea in the WofB material. (You are NOT choosing acharacter or characters to discuss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[14],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/27071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=27071"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=27071"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=27071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}