Modern-day Pilgrim (Miriam Wesley)
Miriam Wesley would make an excellent Wife of Bath in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Unlike other women pilgrimages, Miriam displays different traits of affluence and experience. Her black Lamborghini Veneno stands out in the midst of ordinary cars in the parking lot. Her confidence and interpersonal character definitely reveals she has travelled a lot. Her sculpted body and her burnished complexion must have been men’s bait for a while. By doing this, Miriam has exploited and frustrated over three men in her Cayman Islands home town. Her midnight black hair, her sweet sherbet lips, and her cheerful character reveal her infectious personality. Although Miriam is less eristic, she expresses a lot of intelligence in her conversations, reflecting a sharp background. Her high-heeled shoes perfectly match her expensive hand-woven woolen cardigan revealing a combination of perfection and affluence.
Miriam Wesley resembles The Wife of Bath in several ways. Firstly, her choice of expensive attire and her classy lifestyle not only portray affluence but also reveal hidden moral traits evident in Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath. She demonstrates her intelligence and confidence in interacting with strangers in a manner very similar to that of The Wife of Bath’s intellect in discussing how England is fairing well in the world’s economy. The use of her body shape, facial makeup, and expensive clothing to bait men and exploit them financially portray a character of prostitution that Chaucer intends to bring out in The Wife of Bath. Both Miriam and Chaucer’s character are grown-up ladies whose marital backgrounds are questionable. Miriam expresses her experience in the love world through her confidence and her infectious personality while her counterpart is described to have lived with five husbands. In conclusion, Miriam Wesley’s characteristics and perceived behavior significantly resemble The Wife of Bath’s personality, and she can excellently play her role in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Works Cited
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The wife of Bath’s prologue and tale. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Brown, Peter. Chaucer at work: the making of the Canterbury Tales. Routledge, 2016.