Surname 1 Ayush Suresh Disa Gamberra BUS 3920 05/05/20 Marriage, Economics and the Wife of Bath This paper will discuss how the wife of bath views marriage and how she changes from a business individual with ethical considerations of her workers to a wife who is respectful to her husband and shares her possessions equally. The Wife of Bath criticizes the hatred and prejudice that is directed towards the female population. During the Middle Ages, women's discrimination and every form of antifeminism were not respected. She defies the thinking of medieval ages by being a widow that has been remarried over five times which was not allowed during those times. The Wife of Bath says, "For if God had commanded maidenhood, then with that same word had he condemned marrying" (1). In the statement, she denies the proposition of Jerome regarding matrimony and virginity by claiming that refuted reproduction and marriage if He had slammed virginity. The Wife of Bath depicts the issue of female dominance and sovereignty. During her three marriages, she did not behave as was the custom demanded by the traditions during the medieval ages. The first three husbands of the Wife of Bath are depicted as submissive whose sexual urges were satisfied by the woman. She would her sexual and a nagging nature to demand money from these rich husbands. "And thus, I boast of one thing for myself: in the end, I had the better in every way, by cunning, or by force, or by some type of device, such as continual DISA GAMBERA 20000000051093 I think you mean feminism here--there was great respect for anti-feminism in the Middle Ages because women were considered inferior. DISA GAMBERA 20000000051093 ? Surname 2 murmuring or grumbling" (5). Though the narration of the Wife of Bath shows that she wanted domination, but the Wife wanted to be a form of equality in the house. This is the view that the Wife of Bath was trying to depict marriage. The Wife of bath loved wealth more than how she loved sex. In the middle ages, women owed their men sex and in return, they offered them punishment. Love and sex in the Wife of Bath appear to be a form of a deal of buying and selling for the men and women respectively. The Wife was willing to forego her sexual urges as long as the four husbands the Wife had married gave her money which she later accumulated a lot of property and lived a comfortable life. Although the Wife was used to the habit of marrying men with a lot of wealth her last husband the fifth one broke this chain as he was poor but good in bed which made the Wife love him. The feminist gets an antifeminists husband. The fifth husband that the Wife acquires appears to reserve antifeminist sentiments Despite being the husband she loved among all the five she had married she decides to settle for a poor clerk and did not like to be dominated. The wife describes that the fifth husband used to beat her and that du ...