Is the Wife of Bath a positive or negative figure in The Canterbury Tales? Readers of Chaucer have seen her in wildly different ways, from a gargoyle representing a lifestyle that should terrify them to an anticipation of a feminist or liberated woman. How does her idea of womans sovereignty in marriage contribute to your view of her? What doesnt she mention in her prologue that one might expect her to, and which might relate her thematically to the pilgrims whom we we look at in Lesson 4? Is she a feminist?