The Wife Of Bath's Tale Diction Analysis

The Wife of Bath’s Tale was written in the 1380s as part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer is often credited as the Father of English Literature . While it is commendable that he set people on the path of developing English as we see it today, it doesn't automatically mean his works are the best. As a reader I criticise works based on diction, how everything connects together, and multiple lessons that connect to the story. The story was over all an exhausting read and did not give me a good enough ending for it all to be worthwhile.

My first issue with the Wife of Bath’s Tale is its use of diction. Diction is a literary term that describes the words you choose to include in your story, and how they affect the overall work. Using big fancy words often makes the story sound better and feel more sophisticated but the Wife of Bath’s Tale is overflowing with them. The effect it had was not in any way positive. Reading a sentence felt like reading a novel and I often had to go over sentences multiple times because my mind just couldn’t take in and what was being said. At other times I had to put the work down altogether to give my brain a rest from the strain. Almost immediately after starting I was anxious to get it over with, and if it wasn't required reading I wouldn’t have finished it at all. In the Wife of Bath’s

I cannot deny that it is an important historical work that with or without it our history may or may not have been the same, but historical importance cannot be the standard by which we judge our content. The best way to judge a book will always be how it makes the reader feel, because without them a book is nothing. The use of diction, how everything connected together, and the multiple lessons that connected to the story but not the original crime made this piece difficult and unpleasant to