Pride in the Miller’s Tale
Title: Pride in the Miller’s Tale
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 396 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Pride in the Miller’s Tale
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 396 | Pages: 1 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 396 total…he also propels him to get revenge in his joke on Nicholas.
In these ways Chaucer has created a twisted triangle of pride in the men who love Alison. They are each proud for their own reasons and feel as though they deserve her love. However, their pride leads them to folly as it interferes with their good sense. Overall, Chaucer does a wonderful job ridiculing pride as the obstacle and sin in this tale.