Wife of Bath's tale.
Folk tale.
A folk tale is set in a realistic environment with normal people, it has magical elements and a lesson at the end. The wife of bath has all of these features and it is a folk tale. There are normal charcters such as Amanda and Sir Codsbrain at the time. It is set in a plain and a castle. The lesson in the story is that women most desire power and it is better to love someone properly than just love anyone pretty. Something magical happens when the old lady changes in to a beautiful young lady. Most of the characters are normal because they are just normal folk and just people with no super powers or magic. A plain and a castle was a normal environment at the time. The old lady uses her powers to transform into a beautiful young lady. He learns this lesson by having to listen to everything the queen Guinevere. He also learns that loving someone ugly can work out very well by having to marry tha old lady who turns into a beautiful lady. Because of all these features like it's normal folk, elements of magic and a lesson at the end of the story, the Wife of Bath's tale is a folk tale.
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