Response to The Miller's Tale

The Miller's tale is about a carpenter, his wife, and the two guys who are in love with his wife. The carpenter lets a scholar, Nicholas, live in his house, who has a growing desire for the carpenter's wife. The carpenter had a wife, Allison, who was very young, who he kept around because he was jealous of her for her youth and beauty while he was old and ugly. Nicholas began to have feelings for the carpenter's young wife and decided to confront her in his desires. She at first wouldn't co-operate, but after pleading his love he was able to win her over. She knew she would be killed if her husband found out she was not faithful and so they came up with a plan to get rid of him. Another man has also fallen in love with Allison, Absalom, and he tries to gain her love by singing under her window, which Allison handled as a joke, only having love for Nicholas and having to appear faithful to her husband.

Allison and Nicholas come up with a plan to humiliate the carpenter enough so he will be seen as crazy and not have a chance with Allison anymore. Nicholas locks himself in his room to arouse suspicion of his where abouts. After a day or so, the carpenter confronts Nicholas, where he explains to his master that a flood is coming and that they would need a plan to make sure that he and his wife survive along with him. Nicholas tells him to get tubs and tie them to the roof to prepare for the flood, where they would sneak into them at night and wait till morning for the flood. That night they get into the tubs, and during the silence, Allison and Nicholas sneak out of the tubs and go back to the bed that Allison and the carpenter shared. Once again Absalom tries to win Allisons love by going to her window and begging her for a kiss. Rather than a kiss on the mouth she puts her arse outside the window and he kisses that and senses a beard and realizes the joke being played on him. He leaves the house and goes to the smiths house where he asked to borrow a hot colter and that he would explain himself the next day. Absalom returns to the house where he calls for Allison, asking again for another kiss. This time Nicholas hears him and instead of Allison, puts his own arse out the window, in which Absalom stuck the hot colter and burned Nicholas. Nicholas starts sceaming for water because of the pain, and is heard by the carpenter still lieing in a barrel above the house, who takes it as a sign of the flood. He cuts the rope the tubs are held up by and the tubs fall to the ground. Finding that there is no flood, the carpenter tries to explain himself, but is now forever seen as completely mad.