Everyone has a story. Chaucer certainly believes this as he weaves together stories of twenty-nine different people on their common journey to Canterbury. During their time on the road, these characters explore the different lives of those who travel together, narrated by the group's host. Each character in the cast has the right to a prologue, which explains their life and the reasons for the story, in addition to the actual story, designed to have moral implications or simply to entertain. One story in particular, that of the Wife of Bath, serves both purposes: to teach and to entertain. She gives up the submissive roles of a woman and reveals the moral of her story by portraying women as powerful, sex-seeking creatures, a really funny thought. Through her didactic speech and witty tale, the other travelers, as well as the reader, discover more about the women than they do from any other person's tale. Women in Chaucer's time were contradictory to the Wife of Bath's image of an ideal woman. In the prologue and the story he presents the reader with a radical woman; one who derives pleasure and power from his marriage. The Wife of Bath, also called Alison, begins her narrative by establishing her credibility by describing her five marriages. He says, “If there were no authority on earth / except experience, mine, for what it's worth, / and that's enough for me, everything proves / that marriage is a misery and a trouble” (276). She already defames the role of marriage in the interest of being a woman. Through his marriages, he discovers that the union is a misery. It also goes on to establish the idea of ​​a “woman who knows.” Painting the picture that there is this ideal, intelligent woman who gets her help in her quest. She has power over him, proving that women can play the dominant role in relationships. The moral of the story not only reveals a woman's true desire, but the resulting happiness of both the man and the woman if the man submits to her desires. Chaucer's foresight may have set the tone for feminists of the future. The Wife of Bath shows a thought process that is ahead of its time. In the twenty-first century, both authors and readers are still struggling to present a woman as both her own entity and an important role in a relationship. Both the concepts and the way they are presented in the Prologue and the Tale of the Wife of Bath offer a unique vision of women: a vision of power and authority, of sexuality and confidence, of wit and femininity. Works Cited Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New York: Penguin Books, 1951. Print.