Part 1 of Essay
In Geoffrey Chacer's The Canterbury Tales we are introduced to 29 people who are going on a pilgrimage to St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. Each person is represented to fit a unique type of behavior as shown by people during the medieval ages. My attention was drawn to the Wife of Bath through which Chaucer notes the g ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... a devoted Christian pilgrim who has made trips to several shrines. Through her unique introduction in The General Prologue we learn much of her physical attributes. The Wife of Bath is gapped tooth. "Gat-toothed was she, soothly for to saye. Upon an amblere esily she sat" (p.91, ll. 470-471) This physical feature is attributed to lust and passion. The fact that she could ride a horse easily also could take on sexual connotations (Maclaine 32). The horse she "rides" ....