Many of Chaucer's pilgrims represent a kind of duality. The Forgiver gives a sermon admitting that he is a prisoner of his sin. The Miller, of one of the lowest classes depicted among the pilgrims, tells a story that proceeds directly from the Knight's story of noble valor. Many others, again, tell stories that do not necessarily contradict the prologue but rather complement the characters. The Wife of Bath is no different. Although seemingly hardened by her life of “misery and trouble,” which becomes the marriages described in her prologue, she is still able to tell a story of dishonorable knights, powerful queens, and compliant kings with a kind of grace unexpected from a character like him. like herself. (Chaucer, 258). The prologue of The Wife of Bath is full of foul language. He talks about “generative organs” casually. (Chaucer 261) He defends his callous view of sex by saying that the generative. The Wife of Bath clearly separates love and marriage when she talks about her own marriages. She values ​​control over her husbands over an equal marriage because she “cannot love a husband who takes care of where [she] goes” (Chaucer 267). In fact, the only marriage she “took for love and not for wealth,” was her fifth and final one which treated her badly and was “disdainful in his love” (Chaucer 272). However, in the tale the old hag, who appears to resemble the Wife of Bath in appearance and age, states that she will not trade for all the gold in the world to be "less than [the knight's] wife" nor have "less than 'love [of knights]” (Chaucer 287). While still separating love and marriage, the old crone seems to combine them in a way that suggests that a happy marriage worth all the gold in the world must contain both points of view on marriage, in the prologue and the story, separate love and marriage and suggest that a better marriage contains love It seems that only the language surrounding marriage and sex is