We have many choices in life. Some choices may be more difficult than others. Sometimes as humans we make the wrong choice, but there are also times when our choice is the right or best one. Speaking of choices, the choices we make can affect our entire life as a whole or they can affect only a small aspect of our life. Of course, in the case of choices there are also consequences if the wrong decision is made. This can sometimes reshape our entire life and turn it upside down. Sometimes these consequences can be harsh punishments such as prison. Through these consequences, no matter how difficult they may be to overcome, a lesson can almost always be taught. In The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer a knight who has raped a woman and will now suffer consequences such as death. Naturally he escapes these consequences with the Queen's order to find out what most women want in life. The Knight thinks he's off the hook, but some might argue his punishment has just begun. The Knight committed a terrible crime by raping a woman and he didn't get the punishment he deserved for what happened at the end of the story, the choice he had was very interesting and the Knight understands the nature of women. To start, the final choice that the old lady gives to the Knight is a very interesting choice especially after his lecture. At the end of the story the Knight is faced with the choice of whether to have a woman who is ugly and old but beautiful on the inside or to have a woman who is young and beautiful on the outside and ugly on the inside. The question is very intriguing especially considering first of all how the Knight had treated her and what kind of lesson she had given him before asking him this question...... in the middle of the paper...... she answered in the fuller measure of everything that could delight him or give him pleasure." Basically the Knight got a woman and wife who are beautiful inside and out. He was never punished as he should have been for raping that woman. In a way this seems to be a mockery of rape that solving a stupid question could get a man a beautiful wife and freedom from a crime he committed. He should have been killed right at the beginning of the story. Bottom line, the Knight basically does everything he could ever want in life. He cracked the women's code, but not alone, although that makes him wiser than most men who still don't understand it today. The knight should have been sentenced to death from the beginning and no, in fact he did not receive the punishment he deserved, his crime was truly terrible. Works Cited The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffery Chaucer