Inconsistencies in The Wife of Bath

The main characters narration in The Wife of vat, by Geoffrey Chaucer give a masked function with lies to hide the soft align of herself. However, Alisouns real feeling world exposed as she continues with her narration, which creates the contrariety in her narrative. Alisoun shows her seduce and manipulates her economizes in an intelligent way that line them feel crazy approximately her; but at the equivalent time, it seems like she is the ane that inclination for them. The Wife of Bath builds up her mask with a unsentimental and authoritative character reference, but all(prenominal) issue she describes well-nigh her relationship with the twenty percent husband seems to be inconsistent with that mask. This is how Alisoun characterizes her quality at the beginning of the prologue: \n\nUpon his flessh whil that I am his wif.\nI bear the agency during al my lif\nUpon his propre proboscis, and nat he: (163-65)\n\nAlisoun declares that she will have the power  over her husbands all her emotional state; and his propre automobile trunk  is belong to her, nat he . However, in reality thing seems to be the opposite of what she constructs her persona:\nThat though he hadde me see on every boon,\nHe coude winne again my love anoon. (517-18)\n\nHer fifth husband, Jankin, has beaten her on every bone but he somehow manages to winne again  her love. This clearly is not what she means by have the power ¦Upon his propre body . Alisouns fifth husband in truth has the power over her body instead. Moreover, she is willing to give all her touchwood to him That al myn herte I yaf unto his hold  (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 too reveals the truth that her husband is the one have the power over her. This is totally inconsistent with her record from the beginning of the prologue, a part of woman that is independent and overabundant over men. A lisoun seems to have pump to all of her husband kinda than just using them for currency a...