One of the tales from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

1. The Canterbury Tales
“The Miller’s Tale”

2. Prologue
 It’s time for the monk to
tell about Knight’s Tale
 The miller came and
interrupted them.
 He told a story a clerk
and his wife.

3. The Miller’s TaleSetting:
OXFORD

4. Characters:
John
 husband of Alison
 a carpenter
 old
 rich
 easily get jealous

5. Characters:
Alison
 wife of John
 18-year-old
 beautiful woman

6. Characters:
Nicholas
 a scholar
 rents in carpenter’s
house
 secret lover of Alison

7. Characters:
Absalon
 parish clerk
 in love with the
carpenter’s wife

8. Plot Summary
 The carpenter
named John
married a young
woman
 He’s so afraid that
Alison, his wife
might leave him

9. John went to a nearby
town to work.
Nicholas grabbed the
opportunity to seduce
Alison.
At first, Nicholas asked
Alison to kiss him but
she refused to do so.
At last, she granted what
he wished for.

10. Alison went to a parish
church where she
met Absalon.
Absalon liked the
young lady so much
and courted her.
He sang a song under
the full moon and
gave gifts.
Despite all his efforts,
Alison refused him
to become her lover.

11. Nicholas planned to stay
in his room for the
whole day.
John begins to worry.
He went to Nicholas’s
room and called him
but no one answers.
One of John’s servant
peeked through the
hole and saw Nicholas
sitting upright and
gaping.

12. Nicholas asked the
servants to leave them
because he wanted to
talk with John
privately.
He said that there will
be a Great Flood just
like in Noah.
He instructed John to
fasten three tubs to
used for the flood.
He also said that they
will slept there on
Monday night.

13. Nicholas and Alison
went back to the
house and slept
together in the
carpenter’s house.
Absalon passed by
and asked Alison to
kiss him.
She asked him to wait
for she’s coming out
to the window.
Alison put her butt
out in the window.

14. Absalon heard the he was
fooled by the two.
He borrowed a poker from
the blacksmith.
He returned to he house
and asked for another
kiss.
This time, Nicholas put
his butt out in the
window and farted in
Absalon’s face.

15. Absalon branded with the
hot poker.
In great pain, Nicholas
cried out for water.
John woke up thinking
that it was the flood, he
released the tub and fell
on the ground.
Everyone saw him even
his wife and Nicholas
and they all thought that
he was crazy.

16. END