How Does Chaucer Present The Miller To Become Such A...

How Does Chaucer Present The Miller To Become Such A Vivid And Vibrant Character? ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is a selection of stories written in Middle English. On a spring day in April sometime in the 14th century 29 pilgrims (including Chaucer as a character 30) set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, two nun’s, the friar, the squire, the yeoman, the merchant, a clerk, a sergeant of the law, a wealthy landowner, a doctor, the wife of Bath, a supplier, the reeve, a somonour, a pardoner, Harry Bailey (the host), Chaucer himself, a haberdasher, a carpenter, a weaver, a tapestry maker, a dyere, a cook, a shipman, a poor parson, a plowman, and a miller. To entertain themselves they†¦show more content†¦The solution says Nicholas, is to wait overnight for it in a tub suspended from the barn rafters, and to cut the tub from the roof of the barn when the water has risen, which carpenter does. While Nicholas and Alison lie together, Absolon appears and asks Alison for a kiss. She sticks her bottom out the window, and he kisses it with relish, pausing only when he feels bristly hair and considers that no woman has a beard. He realizes the prank and, enraged, disappears to get a red hot poker. Returning, he asks for another kiss. This time Nicholas, who had risen from the bed to urinate, sticks his bottom out of the window and farts loudly; Absolon brands him in the rear. He cries for water, awakening the carpenter, who thinks that the second flood is come at last. He panics and cuts himself down, breaking his arm; the rest of the town awakens to find him lying screaming in the tub on the floor of the barn. The villagers came to see the commotion and they saw Alisoun was in the bed and Nicholas standing naked. After that, the Carpenter was considered a madman and a cuckold by the whole town. Imagery is one of the key ways that Chaucer describes his character. He does this through similes using animals repeatedly even within the tale miller compares animals to people. Chaucer describes the miller’s beard as sow’s ear, suggesting that the hair is coarse; however this could