The Good Wife's Guide: An Analysis

The Good Wife’s Guide was written in Paris around the 14th century by a wealthy non-noble man, he wrote this to provide guidance to his very young wife after his death. In the Good Wife’s guide the male author uses the hierarchal relationship between God and humanity, employers and employees, and husband and wife, to describe how woman should act. The relationship between husband and wife is almost like submissive relationship or even the wife is the husband’s servant. The relationship between God and humanity is the most important is the most important; it structures the authors thinking about the other relationships. In every relationship in the Good Wife’s Guide seems to have a dominant and submissive. In the relationship between the husband and wife the husband is obviously the dominant and the wife is the submissive, in

The male author has good intentions when writing the Good Wife’s Guide and may have been good back in the 14th century and how one can see though how peoples resisted and tried to implement a different model of social relations that was constrained and hierarchal, but when people read this book in the modern day it does come off like the male is antifeminist and extremely constrained and hierarchal. The relationship between God and humanity is the most important is the most important; it structures the authors thinking about the other relationships. In every relationship seems to have a dominant and submissive. The relationship between the husband and wife it is apparent that the husband is the dominant and the wife is the submissive, in the relationship between God and humanity God would act as the dominant and humanity would act as the submissive, especially woman, and in the relationship between the master and servant it is clear that the master is the dominant and the servant is the