Instead, she could have shown her youth, which would have made the knight happy, but deliberately chose to upset the knight. This essentially portrays women as an obstacle to men who serve to annoy men. Additionally, Bath's wife plays dead after her husband hits her to get his possessions back. After bringing her husband to the point of begging him to forgive her, she makes a deal with him and says “but in the end we made it together.” He gave me the bridle in my hands, gave me the government of the house and the land” (280). Her husband had given her all the power through his supplications and rather than putting him back in order by teaching him not to be a misogynist, she is greedy and demands the return of all his property. Finally, The Wife of Bath shows how the queen abused her power to foolishly decide the knight's fate. After pleading extensively for power over the knight's life, the king finally gives the queen final authority. However, rather than conducting a fair test to decide the knight's fate, she asks him a simple question: "What is the thing women desire most?" »(282). This act of the queen does justice neither to the knight nor to the