many, many times in history dreams have predicted the future and hownon-believers suffered the consciences of not taking the proper precautions. After he done, however, he says that Pertelot is probably right and goes off about his day not giving it another thought. This causes the narrator to take an aside from thestory to tell us his own opinion on women but says that it is the belief of many men and not his own in an attempt to perhaps cover himself. In this he says: “Wommennes counseils been ful ofte colde; Wommannes counseil broughte us first to wo, And made Adam fro paradys to go, Theras he was ful mery, and wel at ese. But for I noot to whom it mighte displese If I counseil of wommen wolde blame, Passe over, for I seyde it in my game. Rede auctours, wher they trete of swich matere, And what they seyn of wommen ye may here. Thise been the cokkes wordes, and nat myne; I can noon harm of no womman divyne.” (404) Chauntecleer later is indeed attacked by a wolf and carried away to the woods to his certain doom before slipping away, proving the point that women are the downfall of men. If he had listened to himself and his dreams instead of Pertelote, Chauntecleer would have been more cautious of not of had the near-death encounter he did. Finally, the prologue to the “Wife Of Bath’s Tale” shows the reader another type of woman of the time, this time in the effect of the story teller. The Wife Of Bath is a tough woman with a mind of her own and she’s not afraid to speak it. She intimidates men and woman alike due to the strength she possesses. But instead of showing this as a good characteristic, Chaucer makes her toothless andugly. She has also had five different husbands and countless affairs, thus breaking innocent men’s hearts. In one part of the prologue, the Wife Of B...
