The Millers Prologue and Tale :: The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

The Millers Prologue and Tale is a humorous story about a love triangle of three men and one cleaning lady. The tale has umteen intriguing parts but the most important t sew togethere is that of loyalty. In the beginning of the tale, the carpenter, John, talks about his wife, how she is so much younger whence him and how he is a very jealous man This carpenter hadde addicted a revolutionarye a wif / Which that he loved more than his lif. / Of eighteteen yeer she was of age / Jalous he was wilde and yong, and he was sr. / And deemed himself been lik a cokewold (113). He is talking about his new wife, and that although he loves her dearly, he is very jealous because he is so old and she is so young. It is very strange that a beautiful young woman would join a man so much older hence him. The carpenter even states that Men shold wedden after hir estat (121) which means that men should marry according to their condition. So I think that the carpenter is a fuddled man, and because of this, he feels he should marry a beautiful woman. Going with that, I believe that the young woman, Alison, married this old man, for his money, and not based of accepted love. So if this marriage wasnt based on true love, it leaves room for disloyalty to throw in about.The disloyalty starts when Alison and Nicholas, the boarder, start flirting and he wants to kiss her. She says no, that she will do it when they atomic number 18 alone in private Myn housbonde is so ful of jalousye / That but ye waite wel and been privee / I woot even off wel I nam but deed (186). Alison states that he husband, as said onwards is madly jealous, so they intend to wait and find a come out of the closet to be in private so they can be in concert without having to worry about being caught. After thinking, they came up with an idea That Nicholas shal shapen hem a wile / This sely jalous housbonde to bigile / and if so be this game wente aright, / She sholden sleepen in his sleeve al night (295). They decide that they are going to have a plan, and if everything goes ok, by the end, they will be sleeping in each others weapons all night.