"The Miller's Tale" And "The Reve's Tale": Similarities
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"The Miller's Tale" and "The Reve's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales
are very closely related. They both deal with the relationship between a
jealous man, his wife, and a young scholar(s), and they both are immoral
stories that contain sex and violence. This proves that the Miller and the
Reeve are ....
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.... and makes love with her. The situation is very similar to "The Reeve's
Tale." In that tale the Miller lets John and Alan, two scholars, who lost
their horse from the Miller's own doing, stay at his house. However, since
the two boys are "Headstrong…and eager for a joke" (110), Alan proceeds to
rape the Miller's daughter, while John sleeps with the Miller's wife. It is
apparent that these situations are very similar, in that the scholars are
having adulterous sexual intercourse with both the ....
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