5. Compare and contrast the ways in which Chaucer and Atwood portray the characters of Serena Joy and The Wife of Bath?
WOB :
Clever/Calculated - getting her way with her husbands, taking their land etc. Her knowledge on the bible and how she manipulates the words for her advantage.
Daring/Outspoken - By speaking about sex and her life very openly, taking into consideration Women's roles and behaviour in that era, and also especially the fact that she is narrating on a pilgrimage full of men and only one women who is ironically a nun,
Experienced in Love and Sex - 5 Churched hubbies etc.
Confident- In her appearance and in the way she speaks.
Selfish- Doesn't consider how others in the pilgrimage may feel about her narrations and speeches, in manipulating her partners for land and money.
She's also quite old and a very good Seamstress which is the same as Serena Joy!
Serena Joy:
Clever/Calculated- The plan she comes up with for Offred and Nick.
Selfish/Bitter: Doesn't befriend anyone around her and is infact in someways cruel, She deliberately withdrew informing Offred about her daughter until it worked for her benefit.
Experienced through her previous life:Her Stardom, singing in a choir etc.
Also a very good Seamstress and old.
Similarites of characters..
Differences...
Context of Books...
Authors...
How are they being portrayed and why...
Obviously to be continuedd...
develop along the lines identified on the man blog - needs to be there by Monday.
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