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This 7 page paper discusses the characters of the Miller, the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, and the tales they tell. It also tells what these stories tell us of life in 1340, and how they mesh together. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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"The Wife of Baths Tale," "The Millers Tale," and "The Pardoners Tale," and argues that the characters in these three can be seen as existing along a sort of sexual
continuum, from openly sexual and pleased with the joys of physical love (Alisoun in "The Millers Tale" and the wife of Bath) to a repressed and bitter celibate ("The Pardoners
Tale). Other characters are located between these extremes. Discussion All of The Canterbury Tales is deliciously bawdy, but perhaps none of the stories is quite as overtly sexy as "The
Millers Tale." Here, Chaucer gives readers a great contrast between the elegant and bloodless concept of "romantic love" and its earthy counterpart, sex. The carpenters exaggerated and unrealistic love for
his "hony deere" (5617) whom he loves "moore than his lyfe" (3222) is like Absolons highly-artificial love for the same woman in that they both deny the real physical nature
of their object." (Tracey 87). Chaucer uses animal imagery to describe Alisoun, pointing out the discrepancy between this healthy, sexually aware young woman and the idea of romantic love (Tracey
87). "John and Absolon are more in love with their own romantic pretensions than they are with the Alisoun Chaucer gives us" (Tracey 87). They dont see Alisoun for who
and what she is, but instead act out some sort of romantic fantasies that have little to do with the actual situation (Tracey 87). In fact, to put it
indelicately, Absolons reaction to kissing her "hole" shows us a man aghast by the female body and, by extension, female sexuality itself. Oral sex is something many people, both men
and women, find extremely pleasurable, but certainly not this young man: "Whos busy rubbing, scraping at his lips / With dust, with sand, with straw, with cloth, with chips /
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