The Role Of Women During The Canterbury Tales By William...

The role of women in society has been well documented through world literature. â€Å"And the reality is that for a large bulk of human history, women have been treated as the subordinate to men and have not been given a voice†(David Splawn, 2015). Works such as The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Hamlet by William Shakespeare,The Education of Women by Daniel Defoe, and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. These works come from a wide variety of time periods, they range from the middle ages to the modern era, where the first was published around 900 years before the last. While women make up approximately half of the population of the world, literature does not reflect this ratio. Even with such population, most works do not even focus on women. Few works have dealt with the role of women in society throughout the history of literature, but it has become more and more of a recurring theme as time passes. Works like The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Ham let by William Shakespeare were rare for their time due to how they portrayed female characters. Works like The Education of Women by Daniel Defoe and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen were wrote in a time of change and were not as rare as the other works published in the same time period. Geoffrey Chaucer slams the role of women in his novel, The Canterbury Tales. â€Å"Chaucer tells three stories told by women. Each of these women do not fully fulfill the images connected with the role the character is supposed