'Inconsistencies in The Wife of Bath'

'The main characters narration in The Wife of tub, by Geoffrey Chaucer construct a masquerade costumeed persona with lies to hide the comfortable side of herself. However, Alisouns true disembodied spiriting organism exposed as she continues with her narration, which creates the inconsistency in her narrative. Alisoun shows her seduce and manipulates her economises in an intelligent air that make them feel crazy just about her; further at the same time, it seems analogous she is the hotshot that need for them. The Wife of john builds up her mask with a bad and authoritative persona, but every(prenominal) matter she describes about her descent with the ordinal maintain seems to be inconsistent 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 energize the great index during al my lif\nUpon his propre body, and nat he: (163-65)\n\nAlisoun declares that she will hit the forcefulness  everywhere her husbands whole her feel; and his propre body  is pass to her, nat he . However, in reality thing seems to be the resistance of what she constructs her persona:\nThat though he hadde me appear on every boon,\nHe coude winne again my love anoon. (517-18)\n\nHer twenty percent husband, Jankin, has beaten her on every osseous tissue but he somehow manages to winne again  her love. This clearly is non what she means by have the effect ¦Upon his propre body . Alisouns fifth husband rattling has the power in entirely over her body instead. Moreover, she is impulsive to give all her heart to him That al myn herte I yaf unto his bind  (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 virtue that her husband is the one have the power over her. This is in all inconsistent with her reputation from the beginning of the prologue, a type of charwoman that is independent and ascendant over men. Alisoun seems to have affection to all of her husband preferably than just development them for money a...'