Summary and Analysis of The Millers Tale Essay -- Canterbury Tales Th

Summary and Analysis of The moth millers TaleWhen the buck had finished, everybody decided that he had told a noble base. The drunken Miller claims that he has a history as noble as the one the knight had told. The host tried to quiet the Miller, plainly he demanded to speak. He claims that he go out read the tale of a carpenter and his wife. His tale will be one of infidelity. The narrator attempts to apologize for the tale that will survey, admitting that the Miller is not well-bred and will therefore tell a bawdy tale. AnalysisIt is in the prologues to the various tales that Chaucer comments on the tales that his characters have told. This serves as an inner(a) critique of the tales that Chaucer has written. In this prologue, the Miller constructs the authors reaction to the horses Tale. The Miller mocks the noble messages of the Knights Tale, and prepares to tell a tale that he finds equally uplifting. The tale that will follow is unreservedly bawdy and lowbrow, a neces sary antidote to the oppressive perceive of epic honor that permeates the stodgy Knights tale. The Canterbury Tales offer Chaucer an opportunity for experimentation, for he has nominated characters who create their own stories. Therefore the stories are not simply an extension of Geoffrey Chaucers imagination. The story of Palamon and Arcite is a tale that a man such as the Knight might tell the inflated pomposity of the tale is a turn move by Chaucer, purposely adhering to the Knights personality even at whatever dramatic and narrative expense. This also affords Chaucer the opportunity to engage in forms of disreputable humor, as the Millers Tale will demonstrate. Chaucer even separates himself from the tale that the Miller has told, claiming th... ...s into taking tubs onto the roof. hardly Nicholas does not suffer for his romantic pursuits. He does not court Alison rather, in his first encounter with her Nicholas grabs her crotch before even speaking. Nicholas only receive s a form of punishment when he attempts to trick Absolon with a kiss for the second time, and in this occasion Nicholas suffers not because he has broken any moral codes, but because he was foolish to try the same trick twice. Only Alison escapes any form of retribution, for she is the one who is consistently cunning and wily. She receives no punishment for her infidelity, eyepatch the characters who are the most overtly virtuous (John and Absolon) are the ones who suffer the most. The Millers tale thus prizes the characters who are the most shrewd rather than those who hold more than sentimental emotions or obey traditional standards of behavior.