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More Major Themes:

Deceit

-Nicholas lies to John so that he can sleep with his wife

-Allison lies to her husband and pretends to kiss Absolon

Love

-Nicholas and Allison go to drastic measures to be together because they love each other

-Allison willingly hurts the two other men who love her because she does not reciprocate the feelings

Medieval Themes:

1. Mocking Courtly love

-“He who is not jealous can not love” (Capellanus)→ John is very jealous and protective of Allison

-“Nothing forbids one woman being loved by two men” (Capellanus) → Allison is loved by Nicholas, John, and Absolon

-“A new love puts flight to an old one” (Capellanus)→ it’s okay to change who you love

Medieval Themes:

2. Feudalism

- Fly Nicholas is educated which holds similar value in a feudalistic system as wealth and power

- Absolon is young and in a feudal sense, worthless.

- Nicholas is expected to pay rent to John. The idea of someone taking refuge in another person's home and giving back to they in exchange is something that originates in feudalistic society. Even if what Nicholas gives John is a whole bunch of heartbreak and embarrassment....

Analysis

-All of the townspeople laughed at John because Nicholas and Allison said he was crazy

-Though he was said to have a disability, he was treated as a joke

-John didn't do anything wrong and yet he ended up with the worst outcome

**Other Information**

1. Everyone gets what they deserved?

2. Why did the Miller tell this story?

3. Role of women in both stories?

THE MILLER'S TALE

And after The Knight's Tale

The Miller's Tale is told before The Man of Knowledge's Tale....

Can you guess which one is the Miller?

The Miller is not that well liked in the group of Pligrims. He is loud, and obnoxious. As depicted here, he plays a bagpipe-like instrument, maybe this is suposed to be a metonymy for the Miller, sharing the same loud and anoying characteristics he does.

He is also framed in this etching by two people drinking to his left and right. His face is bright red, maybe to suggest that he has an alcohol problem. When the Miller interrupts the Monk he says he is drunk.

“Folk began laughing at his lunacy; Up at the food they peered and stared and gaped, And treated his misfortune as a joke. No matter what the carpenter might say, It was no use, none took him seriously. Their sworn testimony so beat him down, He was reputed mad by the whole town, For all the scholars sided with the other, Saying ‘The man’s a crackpot, my dear fellow’, So that the whole affair became a joke” (97)

Major Themes of The Miller's Tale:

Biblical

-flood references Noah’s Ark

-disapproval of sin in the prologue

Revenge

-Absolon seeks revenge when his attempt for a kiss goes wrong

-John does not deserve revenge?

And Before The Man of Law's Tale.

Sources: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0CAYQjB1qFQoTCPO98re318gCFcIaPgodbFQJcQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Feng404chaucer.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F&bvm=bv.105454873,d.dmo&psig=AFQjCNGLCUHIWjT08imF2sJL3WAp27OuPw&ust=1445519546656562

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