Fabliau In The Millers Tale

The Miller’s tale in the Canterbury Tales is a tale told by the miller on their quest to Canterbury. His tale was a Fabliau which contains all the main aspects of a fabliau which is sex, violence, and “justice”. A fabliau in a story about an extended joke or trick on a specific character in a story. It is normally told by a person of lower class and the Miller is one of the lower class pilgrims on the trip. The story is about two characters, Nicholas and Alison, who are fooling around behind Alison’s husband John’s back. At the same time a character named Absalon who is a parish clerk is also in love with Alison and really tries to convince her to fall in love with him. One night Nicholas and Alison trick John into thinking that floods