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Hag vs. Hag: The changes in each story of the Wife of Bath's Tale and The Marriage of Sir Gawain that arise due to character differences.
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HAG VS. HAG:
The changes in each story, The Wife of Bath's Tale, and The Marriage of Sir Gawain that arise due to character differences.
Gawain is a gift given to the hag.
Knight has to marry hag.
Gawain and Ragnelle
what she looked like...
Then there as shold have stood her mouth,
Then there was sett her eye;
The other was in her forhead fast,
The way that she might see.
Her nose was crooked and turned outward,
Her mouth stood foule awry;
A worse formed lady than shee was,
Never man saw with his eye."
Lines 57-64
Character differences
1. Arthur gives Gawian to her
2.Gawain is given a choice between day and night
*Gawain chose pretty in the day
3. Ragnelle explains why she was made ugly
4.Gawain does not protest to the marriage
*Does Arthurian tradition take place here,
with knights and chivlary?
5. Does Gawain know he must obey her will?
6. Ragnelle seems to not be teaching anything to Gawain
*Chivarly?
7. Marriage is not a punishment
Knight and Hag
What she looked like...
"Vanysshed was this daunce, he nyste where;
No creature saugh he that bar lyf,
Save on the grene he saugh sittynge a wyf,
A fouler wight ther may no man devyse."
Lines 140-143
Character differences
1. knight must go and find answer
*as a punishment
2 Knight does not want to marry her
3.Treats her horribly on wedding night.
4. Hag teaches the knight a lesson
*about treating woman right
*and not to use poverty as
a way to hurt her, or anyone.
*Be a gentleman at all times
*Moral?
5. Marriage treated as punishment
6.she will be beautiful, only if he
Follows her will.
7. doesnt have a name
8. Active
Conclusion
I want to prove that the wife of Bath's hag is more active even though she has no name. Compared to Ragnelle who seems to be more passive.
Pictures
http://www.csis.pace.edu/grendel/Proj2004A1/bwovsgawain.html
http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/story/gawain.asp
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=015906&imagex=1&searchnum=2
Works cited
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Caldwell, Ellen. "Brains and Beauty limited Sovereignty in the Loathly Lady Tales." S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, eds. The English “Loathly Lady” Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs . (2007): Print.
Frese, Dolores. "Chaucer’s ’Canterbury Tales’ and the Arthurian Tradition: Thematic Transmission/Aesthetic Transpositions." In Charles Foulon, et al., eds. Actes du 14e Congres International Arthurien). (1985): Print.
Herold, Christine. ""Archetypal Chaucer: The Case of the Disappearing Hag in The Wife of Bath’s Tale."." In Charlotte Spivack and Christine Herold, eds. Archetypal Readings of Medieval Literature. (2002): Print.
Leyser, Henrietta. Medieval Woman: A Social History of Woman in England 450-1500. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Print.