Ambiguity In Miller's Tale By Geoffroy Chaucer

In “Victory Lap” both Alison and the rapist are consumed in fantasies about being royalty. Alison believes that she is a princess and waits for a prince (4) to rescue her; ironically, the rapist validates his actions through a fantasy of being a “king” , (18) using his fantasy to escape reality. In “Tenth

In the movie when Nick Dunne goes on air to apologize and tell lies to get his wife out of hiding. Amy she’s the outreach and feels that he has changed, so she devises a plan to attempt to get back to her husband. In the plan a man whom she had used before, she uses again. She after murdering him in bed frames him for her capture and created a story in which he raped her. All of this was to get back to the man whom she thought she lost love with.

In these panels teenage Alison confronts her father about why he gave her a certain book and wants know if he meant anything by it: “I wondered if you knew what you were doing when you gave me that Colette book,” . In this panel Alison is talking to her father about a book he gave her and trying to lead into the subject of her being a lesbian. She knows her father gave her the book because of her sexuality, but wants to discover whether he consciously knew that was the reason he was giving it to her. I find it interesting that she knows why he gave her the book but insists on asking him if

Because of this, she’s expected to love him no matter what. The reasons stated within the passage would make no sense to any ordinary person, and would not be recognized as reasons to love someone. “She loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair, for the way he came in a door, or moved slowly across the room with long strides. She loved the intent, far look in his eyes when they rested on her, the funny shape of the mouth”(pg 2). In order to justify her servitude to him, she unconsciously attempted to look for valid reasons to love him, which didn’t exist, which resulted in these inadequate

I feel that this idea of wanting Alison to appear more feminine reflects his own desires of wanting to appear more feminine. Helen’s mention of Bruce upstaging the bride depicts the importance he holds to looking perfect and beautiful, and despite not seeming conventionally feminine, he still wants to be viewed in that way. In her captions, Bechdel writes that “while I was trying to compensate for something unmanly in him… he was attempting to express something feminine through me” (98). Bechdel shares this idea of her trying to be what he lacked– masculinity–

The short story really showed the judgement of men’s egotistical minds and also their lust in which clearly stated the true colors of what men really think of women. This establishes the stereotypical image of a woman becoming a man’s puppet, and having no voice in what occurs, but to only be there for an egotistical lust of love in a submissive form to fulfill a man 's desire. When looking into the short story, it is evidently seen that Alan says he loves Diana, but she doesn 't even bother to pay attention to him. So rather than try to capture Diana’s attention he undoubtedly goes into controlling her entire self will for his own selfish reasons. “ She will change altogether.

John never quite settled down into a true home in Brave New World. The meaningful relationships he tried to establish with Linda, Lenina, and his Indian tribe didn’t work out. Without true connections to people, John’s real home was within himself in a place where he could be by himself. When John finally had hopes of living this way in the lighthouse, he had his hopes ruined by the people responsible for his lifelong solitude. The tragic story of John illustrates many of the author’s most important messages.

Mainly because Sarah is in love with Bentrix, and she is married to Henry. The reject she gives to Mr. Smythe hurts him, in that he really wanted to marry her. He is clearly in pain of Sarah’s rejection when he says, “ ‘Don’t come back,’ he said, ‘I can’t bear your pity’ (Greene 98).” At this moment he is so hurt by Sarah he wants her

The Miller's Tale starts out by mentioning that the carpenter, John, was a rich man "who boarded paying guests" and had just married a young woman who "was eighteen years of age" (Chaucer 151). John was "jealous and kept her on a short leash" even though he knew she was young and full of life unlike himself. John's roommate, Nicholas, was a student who "knew all about secret love and pleasurable consolations", he also took a liking to Alison and began to flirt with her. Alison did not seem to be interested at first, but eventually agreed to sleep with him but only if they could do it without John finding out. While that plan is unfolding, Absalom sees Alison and decides that he has to have her, even though Alison is straightforward about not

Helena spends a large portion of her life complaining about the fact that she believes Hermia is much luckier than she is because she is the object of both Lysander and Demetrius’ attention. When Lysander “falls in love” with Helena she does not believe this, she thinks that he is not being honest with her, and is making fun of her, by playing with the feelings she has with Demetrius. The irony in this is that she finally gets what she has wanted, the attention of a man, but she is not able to believe that he is in love with her even though he proclaims his love to her repeatedly. It is as though Helena does not believe she is worthy of the love she has always desired. She may not have wanted to be with Lysander since she has always wanted

The Miller describes this disgusting action as “ingenious”. This shows that men of this time thought invading a woman’s privacy was acceptable and that they didn’t care about women’s feelings. This means that they expected women to be submissive. After pledging her allegiance to Nicholas, Absolon comes to Allison and asks her for a kiss. Before Allison plays a prank on Absolon, she tells Nicholas: “Now hush, my lord, and you will laugh your fill,” (233).

Alison did not feel more for her partner but instead wanted to get away from his overbearing attitude. John however truly loves his wife, “Alas, my wife! And shall she drown? Alas, my Alison” (The Miller’s Tale 414-145). When Nicholas tells of the flood, John is only concerned for his love, but Alison is involved in the larger than life plan so that she can finally feel free.

In his tale, Nicholas, a clerk, and Alison, the carpenter’s wife, plot to trick the carpenter, John, and convince him that a great flood will soon occur. That night, when they are all in their tubs, which are hung from the rafters, Nicholas and Alison make their way down to John’s bedroom to quickly have sex. Meanwhile, Absalom, an admirer of Alison, comes to the bedroom window and tries to sweet talk Alison. When she tells him to go away, he asks for a kiss. At this point, the Miller decides to add an especially raunchy scene to his tale.

While reading in the prologue to The Wife of Bath’s Tale, during the times when I am able to read the story fluently and without having to divert my attention to overcome the difference in spelling, grammar, language, etc., I do find aspects of Alison’s nature amusing. Her quick to judge mentality and solid beliefs are explained to all in such a remarkably unapologetic way, even when her actions or thoughts appear to be questionable, that she often comes across as ludicrously self righteous. Quite proud of her marital manipulation, or more specifically, her manipulation of all men, it is clear she relishes divulging all of her conniving stunts, as if each form of misery she inflicts upon her husband is a trophy worth taking down at any

Nicholas and Absolon are Alison love interest who were determined to win the competition for her. These men played jokes on one another just to receive Alison approval to sleep with her. Chaucer purpose wants to show how materialism causes unhealthy relationship. Question 2.