Alison In The Miller's Tale

The Millers Tale in The Canterbury Tales had some characters that would have made it to Hell with Dante’s views. The wife Alison makes Hell with adultery and lust, with being in the second circle of hell. With Dante is giving Cantos 5 to the ones of lust, compelling those who chose to love, to an eternal life of torment in hell. With lust, the moral wrong doing, might fill physical urges, but does nothing for the spiritual component. With following your physical urges leads you to your soul to suffer damnation.
As with Alison is choosing to follow Nicholas and lie to her husband to have a passionate night with him (Chaucer). With Dante giving God’s justice to those who seem unfit to him by God’s rule. With Hell, there to punish all who seem
unfit for heaven in Dante’s eyes. As with Alison she would have made it to Hell when she died due to her lustful ways, when she chose to sleep with Nicholas. Without more words they went and got in bed
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And thus lie Alison and Nicholas, in joy that goes by many alias, until the bells for lauds began to ring and friars to the chancel went to sing.
(Chaucer 791) With Alison being placed in the dark with a noise worst then that the storm at sea would have made. As said in Cantos 5, “I came into a place mute of all light, which bellows as the sea does in a tempest” (Alighieri 615). However, Alison was happy in the moment and did not think of the consequences afterward.
In circle two of Hell, being the first place of true punishment, with lovers condemned for being in love. Alison and Nicholas would be stuck in Hell, to relive their moment over and over. Such as Paulo and Francesca, whose love affair was ended by death (Alighieri 617).
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me; love has conducted us unto death. (Alighieri 617)
As the decent way to avoid Hell would have been to repent. Although with Paulo and Francesca, they did not have time to repent, as they died suddenly. Dante’s views were shown in the second circle of Hell. The sinners who were overcome with lust, with them being condemned for letting their appetite for love to take over. As Alison’s desire for Nicholas was strong, it overcame her such as Paulo and Francesca love
did. Dante’s moral views of a lustful person, was to accept the consequences they have done. With justice needing to be served to the ones who made the sinful act in their life. Right and wrong for Dante was the action of all men. With human behavior, looked at with a sneer of the lip. Just one wrong act can send you to hell, for Dante. With judging men, a man must hold his own actions accountable and if they do not make a wrong action right, then hell it would be. So for Dante, man’s choice of his own fate, was responsible for his outcome in life and death. As Alison chose to do what she wanted, would make her choices a wrong. Even though it is her life and can choose to do how she pleases. For Dante, people need to choose right, no matter what their heart is saying to do. Though Dante is partial to lovers in Canto 5,” If were the King of the Universe our friend, we would pray unto him to give thee peace” (Alighieri 671). Even though, he does seem to think they need to be punished still yet. With the state of being lustful on earth, the lust will erode God’s image of the person. As being moral situation, Alison did not stay in God’s image but strayed away. Within, a moral territory of human laws, by a characteristic customary in integrity, one’s good deeds in life lies in his own hands, to be as his life as he chooses. However, by virtue of his freedom of will, a man’s fate is his to decide and his alone.