Comparing Aziza And The 40 Thieves, And Wife Of Bath's

Shrewd meaning sly, sneaky, or tricky, but could these traits be used to save the day? In Aziz and Aziza, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, and Wife of Bath’s Tale the role of the female character helps create a plot and theme for the entire story. In these styles of writing, women are seen as sneaky and that they should be trusted because they are meant to cause trouble. Throughout all the stories, the woman leads the plot and is not seen as a supporting character. The shrewd woman plays an important role in using her cunningness to get out of trouble and creating a theme of cleverness to save the man in trouble.

Aziz is a hopeless romantic who needs help deciphering signals from a gazelle woman he is in love with and the only person who can him

is his fiancée. Aziza, his fiancée, is the only one clever enough to decode the signals given by the gazelle woman. Throughout the entire story, Aziza is telling Aziz what to stay and the gazelle woman sends more signals back meaning that they are communicating with each other the whole time. Aziz thinks he is falling in love with the woman and getting closer and closer to meeting her, but it takes a turn. Aziza ends up dying and he realizes that she is the one he should be in love with and no one else. Aziza was not the only woman that was clever, many other women tricked Aziz into being with them and repercussions were made. Aziza’s wits helped Aziz figure out what the cryptic signals meant and if she had not done that then he would have been miserable trying to figure out their meanings. This story shows how an intelligent and clever woman could help someone out of sticky situations.
In Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Morgiana helps her master, Ali Baba get out of being killed using her instincts. Ali Baba had found gold that belonged to the robbers and they were set out to kill him, the thieves had marked his house so they knew which one was his, but Morgiana felt that something was up and marked all of the other houses. With her women’s intuition, she had deceived the thieves and saved Ali Baba’s life. Again and again the thieves had attempted to kill Ali Baba, but Morgiana was always one step ahead. Morgiana does not play the classic role of a woman by being the damsel in distress, but by being the hero of the story. She had showed that being shrewd can help in the end and not always end up in trouble. Most men see women as always trying to be sneaky, but it depends on the way you see it. If the woman is working against you, you might view her as nothing but evil or if she is helping you, you see her as brilliant and cunning. In this story, the woman is the heroine and shows how the man could also be clueless in what is going on around him.
A man being subjected to women is not particular in a story, but in a Wife Bath’s Tale, a knight is set out to find what women desire most. The only problem is that he does not know the answer to the question and the answer depends on his life.