The Tricks Of Time In The Miller's Tale

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those words are meaningless when the Church decides what those words are. On the outside, Nicholas appears to be just a poor scholar; however, by his nefarious nature, Nicholas utilizes his pedantic knowledge to trick the carpenter in believing there would be another flood coming. According to Dawn Simmons Walts in The Tricks of Time in the Miller’s Tale, this perfect moment, which “provides Nicholas the opportunity to invent his own version.” The artifice models Nicholas’s insidious nature. Through the use of this farcical exaggeration, Chaucer reveals the lack of knowledge between the followers of the Church and how easily uneducated people are prone to manipulated.
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