The Wife of Bath’s tale The Wife of Bath’s tale is a tale of a knight that was sent on a task by the queen. This task was of utmost importance to him, because if he failed he would loose his life. The task was to find what women wanted the most. The knight traveled far to distant lands, and still he could not find the answer he seeked. The knight, terrified at …showed first 75 words of 480 total…

…showed last 75 words of 480 total…turn, the lady becomes everything he could ever dream for in a wife because of unconditional love, which conquered the problems they had initially in their marriage. One could further hypothesize that if the knight had been stubborn in his ways and let his foolishness blind him, he would have died an unhappy man, because he would be stuck with a wife that he didn’t love simply because she didn’t meet his standards.