Instead, she could have shown her youth, which would have made the knight happy, but she purposely chose to upset the knight. This basically portrays women as an obstacle to men who serve to annoy men. Furthermore, Bath's wife pretends to be dead after her husband beats her to get the property back. After getting her husband to beg her to forgive him, she makes a deal with him and says “but in the end we made it together. He has given me the reins in my hand, he has given me the government of the house and the territory” (280). Her husband had given her all the power through her pleading and instead of fixing him by teaching him not to be misogynistic, she is greedy and demands all his property back. Finally, the Wife of Bath shows how the queen abused her power to foolishly decide the knight's fate. After much pleading for power over the knight's life, the king finally gives the queen final authority. However, instead of providing fair evidence 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 not do proper justice to either the knight or the