Choose two of the prompts. Each answer should be approximately 300-400 words (2/3 to 1 page long). So an individual Writing Assignment will be about 2 pages long. Please copy and paste the writing prompt before each of your responses.
1. The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale by Chaucer: The Wife of Bath has frequently been called the "root of all evil"; she has also been extolled as a feminist, a wise woman, a precursor to the modern businesswoman, and many more things. How do you view the Wife of Bath? Support your analysis of her character with textual evidence.
2. The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale by Chaucer: Some manuscripts indicate that the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale is Sir Gawain. How does her depiction of the knight go along with and/or contradict your ideas about him, based on the other Arthurian tales you've read? What lesson does the knight learn in this tale, and what is the Wife of Bath's overall message?
3. A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich by Julian of Norwich: Julian, while presenting many traditional images of God, also has some startling ways of experiencing or describing God. Choose one or two non-traditional images and explain how they might deepen readers' understanding of God, Christ, the Trinity, or Christian teaching.
4. The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe: Margery Kempe has often been compared negatively to Julian of Norwich (particularly by early twentieth-century male.