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The Wife of Bath, after her astonishing Prologue, tells a fairy tale about a Knight and a Crone. Some critics have suggested that the Crone is a sort of unconscious self-portrait, that it makes most sense as a fantasy of the Wife's. What about the Wife's objective portrait in the General Prologue and her conscious self-portrait in her Prologue would support the theory that the Crone is a sort of unconscious self-portrait? |