THE EVOLUTION OF EQUALITY Women in today's society are almost always viewed as equals. Acheiving equality has been a tremendous strain on women, but times have finally started to change. Looking back on English literature from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, male domination is portrayed to its fullest extent, and continued to be up until the nineteenth century. Not only were women authors and writers almost non-existent, but the women portrayed in literature were almost …showed first 75 words of 1423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1423 total…was condemned for it, they were only accepted. Being guilty and having the proof of innocence with no one to hear your plea, can force one to take extreme measures in proving their point. This is why the Wife of Bath was not a character that was created to emphasize the faults that males carry within them, but in reality the Wife of Bath was a major symbol of true justice in a sexist society.