Weasels and Angels: Rhetorical and Communicative Strength and Weakness in Selected Women of The Canterbury Tales

This thesis looks at the communicative methods and rhetorical strategies of five women characters found in Chaucer\u27s The Canterbury Tales through the lens of Helene Cixous\u27s description of written female language as applied spoken language to examine the dichotomy of weakness in strength and strength in weakness these characters portray