Social Class In The Miller's Tale

The Miller’s Tale was one of many different story featured in the “The Canterbury Tales”. Throughout the tale, Geoffrey Chaucer, although intoxicated at the time, was able to write a trustworthy story that depict the life of the lower class accurately. Although his writing skills wasn’t sophisticated as the Knight, he was still able to composed a detailed depiction of how the lower class interact each day. His composition of the Miller’s Tale proved that anyone can write an outstanding work of literature despite their education level and ranking in the society. Chaucer was able to collected the views and beliefs of the lower class and expressed them on paper for the world to read. The tale was accurate and distinguished the overwhelming differences between the
First of all, there are many differences that separated the lower and upper class. In general, the lower class are usually more straightforward and their lifestyle reflects that. Their whole life is enclosed by their work because that is how they make a living. Throughout the Knight’s Tale, the reader can see that they favored chivalry and Christianity more than any social classes in the other tale. On the other hand, the Miller’s Tale is the total opposite in comparison to the Knights. As workers, they are only concerned about their job because without it then they have no lifestyle, while the Knights prayed to God everyday and followed their knight’s code of chivalry. One major reason for this is how the workers and knights sit among the social class ranking. As knights, they received sufficiently