It is evident that women had to constantly fight to earn some of the basic human rights. It also true that the status of women now is much better than one hundred years ago. One of the things that constantly coming up in the stories read so far is the role of women. I believe literature is a reflection of society. When writing a novel for an author use what he seen around him as inspiration for his stories, and if women were not empowered that what they are going to portray. Chaucer was not a women hater, he simply portrayed Emily as any other women of that time. Also, for a change Chaucer had the Amazon women who lived on their own and were completely independent of men, and that was rare for literature of the that time period. Chaucer was only reflecting society in his literary works. Also book written in the twenty first century describe women differently than he did in the Middle English era. As time change character change also.