The Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue Symbolism, Imagery & Allegory

On several occasions, the Wife compares herself and other women to loaves of bread. The first time, she likens virgins to wheat bread and wives to the less-expensive and coarser barley bread. Her p...

Another figure of speech the Wife uses to describe herself and her sexuality is that of women-as-flowers, a very common way of describing women even today. When discussing her increasing years, for...