Wife of bath reflection (pls help) :)

1.to what extent does the wife’s tale seem appropriate to her character as it has been depicted?

2. does the tale reveal new or unexpected aspects of her character? Does it illuminate any of the very different relationships that she has experienced in marriage?

3. The moral of the story seems to confirm her argument in the “prologue” that wives should have authority over their husbands. But the proof of the moral seems to come through magic. Are we to take the story at face value, or is it in the truest sense a “fairy tale”?

4. Does Chaucer in this way represent the wife as seeing herself as the “loathly lady” waiting for some loving husband to unlock the beauty inside her?