The Miller’s physical description is intensely disgusting. As described within the prologue, he has a red beard, huge nostrils, a gaping mouth, a wart on his nose, and the most important feature that he has…. Is that he’s fat. His intense physicality was solely associated with lustfulness and, within the portrait, we get a certain amount of clues that it was medieval symbolism which held that red hair was a sign of lustful nature. Although, people that were like the miller, solely those within the peasant class, drew heavily upon negative stereotypes about the lower class within this time period. Therefore, the noble and other higher classes had the concept that the lower, or peasant class, where all brawn and no brains. The story that the drunken miller had told definitely fits his description because most lower class people were mostly foolish with their acts (that of which the knight thinks anyway) which also describes the miller as well as the characters within the story. Nowhere within The Canterbury …show more content…
Then, the unwitting husband suspends three tubs from the rafters to serve as lifeboats and uses one for his bed. Then, the young Alisoun, the carpenter’s wife, and Nicholas steal off to her bedroom only to be interrupted the next morning by her admirer Absolon and begs her for a kiss. Then, Alisoun offers her backside. Enraged upon this deception, Absolon returns once more. This time, Nicholas assumes the same position but is rewarded, not by the kiss in the der rear, but is scorched by a branding iron. His cries for water awaken the carpenter assuming that the flood is coming he cuts the rope that is holding his tub and comes crashing through the attic. The birth of Nichola’s scheme is part of the tale’s obsession of genesis and generation. But, the scheme is not the structure of irrelevant details. It is a story superbly constructed to play on the carpenter’s worst