Summary of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales.
Date Submitted: 05/07/2004 09:49:03
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 4 pages (1159 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 4 pages (1159 words)
The Tale of the Miller
In Chaucer's Canterbury tales, the Miller's tale is said to be arguably the most humorous of the number. It is easy to see why this is said as one reads through the prologue and the tale. Though vulgar at it's best it is also said to give one a good idea of how the lower classes in Chaucer's time seemed to relate between one another.
Following the completion of the …
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…hands they should not soon forget. And to end this story Chaucer wrote, "this tale is done, and God save all the company (181; The Miller's Tale line 668)!" What better way to end a tale of such moral value, for if you finished this work and did not need saving before you may well need it now.
Works Cited
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. ed. and trans. A. Kent Hieatt and Constance Hieatt. New York: Bantam, 1981.
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