How Chaucer's Female Characters Satirize the Church's Control over Medieval Gender Roles

This essay on The Canterbury Tales considers how the evolution of gender roles and views on women in the Middle Ages is reflected in the characters of the Prioress and the Wife of Bath. The student argues that Chaucer takes specific aim at the power of the Church in defining these roles, and the attendant matters of sex, money, and morals.

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"This is an energetic engagement with the material that shows good control of the analytical project. The opening paints in fairly broad strokes that a reader may be inclined to resist; I see references at the end to specific page numbers, and these should be placed directly into the text either via a parenthetical or a footnote or endnote so the reader understands where contextual claims are coming from. This will enhance both efficiency and ethos.

A thorough proofread should be used to clean up lower-order concerns. Despite a strong sense of flow, pacing, and syntax, there remain fairly frequent minor errors, some of which may be typos or formatting issues (missing apostrophes); other elements that need attention include comma splices, some awkward diction, and formatting of quotations (punctuation)."

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