The Wife of Bath is a complex character: she is different from the way she represents herself. Maybe not even what she thinks she is. On the surface, it seems like she's a feminist, defending women's rights and power over men. She also describes how she dominates her husband, playing on a fear common to men. From a man's point of view at that time, she seemed to illustrate all the wrongs that men found in women. As a weak parody of what men then considered feminists to be. The Wife of Bath constantly highlights the negative implications of women throughout the ages. She describes women as greedy, controlling and dishonest. Many critics over the years have given the Wife of Bath the title of feminist. She is a strong-willed, dominant woman who gets what she wants when she wants it, by manipulating her husbands into feeling bad for things they didn't do, or saying things that make them feel bad. shame. No man has ever been able to give an exact answer when asked how many husbands a woman can have in her life....