Soul's Time and Transformation: The Wife of Bath's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Atkinson, Michael.
Soul's Time and Transformation: The Wife of Bath's Tale
- Published
- Southern Review (Adelaide) 13 (1980): 72-78.
- Description
- WBT is a tale of transformations best understood by applying to it Jung's concept of anima. The knight's quest is really a search for understanding of his inner self, the feminine psyche. The transformation of the hag at the end mirrors his own inner transformation as he accepts submission and affirms the power of the feminine psyche.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.