THE MILLER

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THE MILLERS TALE

• Mr. Burkett
• English IV

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Here comes the muscular red beard pervert.
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The Miller

• The Miller's physical description fits his story,
  which is an absolute dirty story as well as
  himself.
• He is a muscular man, full of muscle and bone. He
  is always the winner at wrestling.
• Short shouldered, broad and thick set red beard,
  a wart on his nose from which bristly red hairs
  protruded made him look fearful.
• Play the bagpipes as the pilgrims left the town.
  (He tells a dirty story about a carpenter John.)

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THE BAGPIPE
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Prologue Analysis

• The pilgrims applaud the Knights Tale, and the
  pleased Host asks the Monk to match it. Before
  the Monk can say a word, the Miller interrupts.
• The Miller, who is very drunk, announces that he
  will tell a story about a carpenter.
• He introduces his tale as a legend and a life of
  a carpenter and of his wife, and of how a clerk
  made a fool of the carpenter, which everyone
  understands to mean that the clerk slept with the
  carpenters wife.
• The Reeve, Oswald, objects because he was once a
  carpenter.

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• Chaucer then warns the reader that this tale
  might be a bit rude and uncivilized, but he must
  tell all the stories because a prize is at stake.
  He warns that those who are easily offended
  should skip to another
• Then the crazy Miller begins his tale.
• .
• From the prologue, we know that the Miller is
  not the kind of guy any woman with any sense
  would want to spend the rest of the life with. He
  is a pervert and a drunkard.
• This story is just the right story for the Miller
  since his tale is as obscene as he is.

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WHERES THE MILLER?
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The Millers Tale

• Nicholas, a college boy who studied astrology
  has a feeling for Alison, a wife of a wealthy but
  ignorant old carpenter named John.
• John is jealous and highly possessive of his
  attractive twenty-year-old wife, Alison.
• One day, the carpenter leaves, and Nicholas and
  Alison begin flirting. After a few sweet words,
  she agrees to sleep with him when it is safe to
  do so. She is worried that John will find out,
  but Nicholas is confident he can outwit the
  carpenter.

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• Nicholas tricks the husband, John, into thinking
  that another Noah's flood is coming, and makes
  him hide in a tub that is nailed above the house
  for the time that the flood comes. 
• The husband does this, and Nicholas and the wife
  are able to spend the evening together. 
• Absalon, another young man who is in love with
  Johns wife, comes over to the house to try to
  win Alisons heart ,but she and Nicholas reject
  him. 

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• The couple are mean to Absalon.
• Alison tricks Absalon, sticking her butt out the
  window and having him kiss it. 
• When Nicholas tries to make Absalon kiss his
  butt, Absalon sticks him with a hot poker.
• Nicholas cries for water ?
• the husband thinks that this is the sign that
  the flood is coming, and so he falls out of his
  tub and landed on the ground.
• At this point everyone in the town thinks that
  John is losing his mind, and everyone is
  convinced he is going insane.

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THE FLOOD!!!