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In doing this he also displays Chaucer's subtle hint of anti-feminism. One can reason that Chaucer shows that women are inferior by this vow of obedience in a sense that because Griselda is put into an inferior role in the marriage, that women take an inferior role in social status...
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In contrast to Griselda's character is her noble husband Walter. One can again reason that Chaucer deliberately portrayed Walter as a marquis to contrast his image of the Clerk. Walter's bringing Griselda up the social ladder of Lombardy also symbolizes the theory of anti-feminism, once again, in the sense that men are superior to women because they are capable of such a task as raising their social status from the poorest of poor to the noblest of noble in one day...
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George Washington George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, on the family plantation in Virginia. As a kid, George Washington never had much of a formal education...	1 / 246
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