The Canterbury Tales

 In her Prologue, Alysoun challenges the Medieval

Church (priests, theologians, and all) on the subject of marriage

and points out numerous fallacies in their reasoning. Identify at

least two of these fallacies. Don’t go to Google for this one. Use

the text. Choose a song that you think the Wife of Bath would like

and explain why you think so. Include the lyrics and a link to the

song. What celebrity can you visualize as the Wife of Bath? Why?

Include her picture (or his, whichever the case may be… ).

In The Wife of Bath's prologue, Alysoun argues against the Medieval Church by explaining how she has had five husbands. During this explanation she defends herself by saying that she has never heard about there being a limit to the number of husbands one can have. That man has only interpreted the Bible to what they believe it to say. She when explains the passage where God says to increase and multiply. That he does not once say that bigamy or even octogamy is a sin or scandal. She continues to say that King Solomon had more than one wife and yet he was not ridiculed or judged for it.

The Wife of Bath reminds me of a song by Alan Jackson called Small Town Southern Man.  It reminds me of The wife of bath because it is the opposite of her and talking about only having one marriage and that it is only a one time thing.