The Wife Of Bath And Queen Guinevere Analysis - 1128 Words

In the stories of The Wife of Bath and Queen Guinevere from the tale of King Arthur, both women of nobility and are strong characters. The Wife of Bath is a woman who likes to be known in the upper class and enjoys and parties. Queen Guinevere â€Å"is more passionate and caring,† she takes her royal status for granted. In the Middle Ages, these two women did not fit the idea of how women were to act or think towards their roles as women in that time period. The Wife of Bath character is a woman who had married five times. Of these five husbands she only loved one. On line 195 of the story she stated, â€Å"As three of them were good and two were bad. The three men who were good were rich and old.† She did not marry them for love. She was the†¦show more content†¦I don’t begrudge them their virginity; â€Å"(Lines 139 – 142) The many references to emotional physical interaction between men and women was how the Wife of Bath justifies her marriages. She did what she needed to do for survival and get what she wanted for herself. Queen Guinevere’s character was more about being royal and doing as she wanted. She was married to King Arthur. She was above all of the wrongs that she has done and shows no signs of sadness, even when she is sad (page 632). She has an affair with Sir Launcelot without King Arthur knowing about it. She causes conflicts among the knights and the King. Both men are so in love with Queen Guinevere. Sir Launcelot throughout the story does battle for Queen Guinevere, while showing King Arthur his loyalty. Queen Guinevere was desired among the knights. â€Å"Sir Meliagrance, loved passing well Queen Guinevere, and so had he done long and many years †¦ he had lain in await for to steal away the queen, but evermore he forbare for because of Sir Lancelot; for in no wise he would meddle with the queen as Sir Launcelot were in her company, outher else an he were near-hand her† (page 669). The knights liked her because she was beautiful and she did nice things for them. Guinevere makes a dinner for the knights. Guinevere is accused of killing Sir Patrise with a poison apple (page 633). She had no trouble having Sir Bors stand up for her