She offers the knight a choice: either he can have her be ugly but loyal and good, or he can have her young and fair but also coquettish and unfaithful.
What does the hag tell the knight?
The hag tells the knight what women most desire – to have sovereignty over their husbands and lovers. The queen and all the ladies assemble agree that he is correct. As the court is adjourning, the hag petitions the queen to force the knight to fulfill his promise to her: she wants the knight to marry her.
How does the knight make his choice in the end?
In exchange for the correct answer to the queen’s question, the knight will do whatever the old woman asks of him. To fulfill the bargain, he marries her, because that is her demand.
What answer does the old hag give the knight on a condition that he marries her if it’s right?
He tells the Queen, she agrees that answer is correct, and then the Old Woman reveals her condition. Her condition for giving him the answer is to agree to marry the Old Woman. On the wedding night, the Knight was not interested in consummating the marriage.
Who finally gives the knight the correct answer to the question?
an Old Woman
In his quest to find the correct answer, the Knight travels all over. Finally, an Old Woman is able to provide the answer for him, and she will give him the answer on one condition, that he will do whatever she asks next of him.
What happens at the end of the Wife of Bath’s tale?
The Wife of Bath’s Tale ends with the knight and the old lady having wed, in their nuptial bed. The knight is very upset because his wife is so old and unappealing to him, and she asks if he’d rather a faithful wife or a beautiful one. After talking, he agrees to let her decide and offers her power over him.
What does the old hag ask the knight for in return for helping him?
The queen and all the ladies assemble agree that he is correct. As the court is adjourning, the hag petitions the queen to force the knight to fulfill his promise to her: she wants the knight to marry her. Despite the knight’s reluctance, the queen insists that he must do so, and the knight and hag are married.
What 2 choices does the woman give the Knight?
She offers the knight a choice: either he can have her be ugly but loyal and good, or he can have her young and fair but also coquettish and unfaithful.
Who gives the knight two choices?
The loathly lady
The loathly lady offers the knight two choices: he can either have her old and ugly but faithful, or young and beautiful but with no guarantee of her fidelity.
What happens at the end of the Knight’s tale?
As he lies dying, Arcite acknowledges that he knows no person better than Palamon and begs Emilie to accept Palamon as her husband. Arcite dies and Theseus arranges a great funeral for him. After a long period of mourning, Palamon and Emilie are married and live out their lives in “a love unbroken.”
What happens in the end to the knight and the old woman?
The old woman turns out to be the Wife of Bath. The old woman decides the knight will never love her and leaves, and the knight meets the love of his life the next day.
What is the answer to the knights riddle?
Blue says, “We are both knaves.” Who is really the knight and who is the knave? It’s impossible for Blue to be the knight. If Blue was a knight, the statement, “We are both knaves,” would actually be a lie. Therefore, Blue is a knave as his statement is a lie, and Red must be a knight.
What is the answer to the question the knight must answer to earn his freedom?
Desperate to live, the knight agrees. Once more facing the court, the knight relays the answer that the old woman gives him: all women desire sovereignty over their husbands. Sovereignty is freedom from outside control. The women of the court agree, and the knight earns his freedom.
What question must the knight answer in order to avoid execution?
The knight rapes a maiden he sees walking home from the stream one day. As punishment, the queen sentences him to death unless he can answer the question of what women most desire. The knight sets out on a quest to find the answer to this question, but is unsuccessful.
How long does the knight have to find his answer?
How much time will she grant him to find the answer to this question? The queen gives the knight one year and one day to complete this challenge. Chaucer has the Wife of Bath break off into a long digression at this point to depict how her mind works.
How does the knight in the Wife of Bath’s Tale end up being sentenced to death?
In the beginning of the story, why was the knight sentenced to death? Because he raped a maiden.
What does the knight give to his Wife in the end?
By the end of the tale, he gives up his power to his wife completely and graciously says, “I put me in your wise governance” (1237).
What does the old woman make the knight agree to what will she do in return?
She deceived him with magic, making him think she was beautiful. In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” the old woman insists the knight marry her as her reward.
Does the knight change in the Wife of Bath?
The only development of the knight’s character comes at the end of the tale, when he accepts his wife’s arguments and realizes what he has done wrong. However, even then he is manipulated by her into giving her what she wants (which is the power to make decisions).
What key information does the old woman provide to the knight?
The old woman tells the knight that he is to take the old woman as his wife.
What does the old hag symbolize?
A hag, in many mythologies and folk tales, is a woman who can fluidly transition the boundary between youth and old age and often symbolizes the aging process for women.