| A brief explanation | Prologue and Tale |
According to the beginning of the prologue, as the Wife of Bath starts to share some information about her life, she announces that she has always followed the rule of experience rather than authority. She considers herself to be an expert in marriages and assures that saying that she had experienced enough to guaranty this affirmation as by marrying five times.
As it concerns tale, The Wife of Bath uses the prologue to introduce the point that she exposes in her tale, that what women most desire is the complete control over their husbands. Being marriage five times and having five husbands, the Wife of Bath, feels that she can speak with authority from this experience and in the prologue she tells how she took advantage of each one of them.
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