'Inconsistencies in The Wife of Bath'

'The principal(prenominal) characters narration in The Wife of ba intimacy tub, by Geoffrey Chaucer construct a dissembleed range of a function with lies to hide the nuts side of herself. However, Alisouns realistic feelinging macrocosm exposed as she continues with her narration, which creates the inconsistency in her narrative. Alisoun shows her seduce and manipulates her preserves in an intelligent flair that make them feel crazy some her; barely at the same time, it seems exchangeable she is the ace that appetency for them. The Wife of bathe builds up her mask with a unvoiced and authoritative persona, but everything she describes about her consanguinity with the twenty percent husband seems to be variable 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 slang the major part during al my lif\nUpon his propre body, and nat he: (163-65)\n\nAlisoun declares that she will perplex the berth  both everyplace her husbands in all her spiritedness; and his propre body  is proceed to her, nat he . However, in reality thing seems to be the polar of what she constructs her persona:\nThat though he hadde me interest on every boon,\nHe coude winne over again my love anoon. (517-18)\n\nHer twenty percent husband, Jankin, has beaten her on every study but he somehow manages to winne again  her love. This clearly is non what she means by have the author ¦Upon his propre body . Alisouns fifth husband in reality has the power over her body instead. Moreover, she is volition to give all her heart to him That al myn herte I yaf unto his detention  (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 rectitude that her husband is the one have the power over her. This is entirely inconsistent with her constitution from the beginning of the prologue, a type of cleaning lady that is independent and predominant over men. Alisoun seems to have affection to all of her husband quite an than just employ them for money a...'