What Are The Two Adolescents In The Miller's Tale

“The Miller's Tale” written by Geoffrey Chaucer was written about the love story between two adolescents, Nicholas and Allison. During the 14th century, adolescents acted in erratic and impulsive ways and still do today. They went out of their way to get what they wanted which was love for both of them. They did anything they could to get the attention of each other. Everyone during their life will be an adolescent at one point, and it is important for older adults to realize how unique their love was. We have all acted in similar ways to Nicholas and Allison. As crazy as the story sounds to be, theses characters acted in typical manners like we all have. Nicholas and Alison are very realistic adolescents in this story because they show the adolescent tendency of risk taking and impulsivity. Nicholas and Alison engage in realistic adolescent behavior when they show their motivation of

Alison acts impulsive when she sticks her but out the window to have Absalon kiss it. “A beard, a beard! Laughed handy Nicholas. God’s body, this is really going swell” (Chaucer 3742)”. She acts without thinking and acts in a very immature way. She doesn’t think about how Absalon will react. Instead of handling the situation in a thought out way, she impulsively sticks her butt out of the window. It solves the problem of Absalon bothering her in the moment. She does not consider what his reaction will be and therefore the consequences could be worse. It could also makes Absalon mad. Another example of impulsivity is when Nicholas grabs Allison and says he has to have her, “My darling, you must love me right away or I will die, God save me!” (chaucer 6). He acted in an inappropriately aggressive way and didn't think of the consequences. Many adolescent boys act inappropriately arounds girls which makes the characters realistic. By doing this act, he also jeopardizes himself of getting in huge