Analysis Of Lessons For Women By Bisclavret

Lessons for Women explains the relationship between a husband and wife, the respect and caution the husband and wife must have for each other, and the devotion a wife should have to her husband. Bisclavret is about a man named Bisclavret who turns into a werewolf. His wife is worried about their relationship and asks him about his transformation and finds out his weakness. She uses his weakness against him out of fear, betraying him and leaving him for someone else. After a year of being apart, they see each other again and Bisclavret attacks her. The story of Bisclavret puts the concepts of Lessons for Women in a different light and shows how manipulation can lead to the destruction of a husband and wife’s relationship.

In Lessons for Women,

In Lessons for Women, it is said that a woman needs to use these cheap methods if she “seeks to win her husband’s heart”. This is for a woman who has a disconnection between with her husband, for example if the husband is cheating on his wife. Bisclavret is not cheating on his wife, but his wife’s thinks that he is, and she ends up using the cheap methods of flattery and coaxing words to gain intimacy with him, or in this case, the truth. They’re already at that level of love with each other that they don’t need to doubt each other, so when the wife does doubt her husband and tries to find out what his secret is, it is interpreted as Bisclavret being manipulated into proving his love to his wife. In Lessons for Women, the wife is trying to win her husband’s heart because she wants see if her husband loves her. In Bisclavret, he already loves her, but the wife doesn’t think that he does. The wife’s manipulation of her husband is the first instance of the destruction of their

In the beginning of the story, the wife is a mouse. She is doubtful about their relationship and worries that Bisclavret doesn’t love her. When she finds out that he is a werewolf, she becomes a tiger, betraying him and leaving him for someone else. She tries to figure out “how she might get rid of him” (101), so she goes for his weakness; she hides his clothes so that he may never be able to transform back into a human, and “Bisclavret is betrayed, ruined by his own wife” (125-126). This shows how “if love and proper relationship both be destroyed then husband and wife are divided”. The wife’s mistrust and betrayal of her husband causes their love for each other to falter, thus ruining their relationship. Bisclavret is subject to living in the woods on his own with the fear of being hunted or killed, and his wife is with some other man. They are divided, and eventually brought together again by fate, but at that point, Bisclavret has turned into a weak monstrosity. After a year of living in the woods, the king finds him and takes him in. He holds a court and his wife, as well as her new husband, are there and Bisclavret, seeking revenge, attacks her. He lunges at her and “tears the nose off her face” (235). All this time, he’s been kind