Compare and contrast how the three male characters are presented to us

correspond and contrast how the three male characters argon presented to usin The Millers history and consider their roles in the Fabliau.The three male characters in Chaucers The Millers tarradiddle present manyof the classic themes in and genre Fabliau. In side literaturethere is only a small amount of these yarns and fractional of those areChaucers. While in French literature there are over 300 stories.Nicholas is presented at the start of the relation as blue-blooded (hende) shyand therefore trusted and experienced in passionate noble love, wecan tell from his appearance and rendering that he will be thestereotypical fabliau character who is cunning and al ports makes funof the other more foolish characters. John the carpenter is given a unequal description and it is clear by the way he speaks that he is non real intelligent therefore his foolishness will be punished tailrepresents the stereotypical character of the duped husband (old andjealous).Alison is the faithles s wife (young and versedly active). sexual and practical jokes play a large part in the Millers Tale, for modeling Alison tricking Absolon into kissing her arse, this ideahowever comes from a raucous pump English song called Old HogansAdventure. The fact that Nicholas is short and brawny in his mannerand speech contrast his feminist debut at the start of thetale. The three characters of Nicholas John and the wife Absolon fit firmly into the fabliau theme of the love triangle a plot thatalways lends itself to sexual jokes. One of the best jokes in theMillers Tale is the way the characters use the language oaf courtlylove to gain their narcissistic lustful ends, a major theme in many Fabliautales. Nicholas and Absolon c... ...fthe fabliau. The tale is ribald in con text edition farce is a obvious work ofhumour in the Miller Tale as is irony. Chaucer plays off text againsttext to create ironical effect, the carpenter is a perfect ironic remedyto the Mi8llers advice of in the prol ogue, we learn that the best wayfor husbands to neutralise being cuckolded is to An hoiusbonde shal natbeen inqiusityf / Of Goddes pryvetee, nor of his wyf. The three malecharacters in the Millers tale conform very well to the personalitiesand themes of the fabliau. But Chaucer changes his characters so theydo not completely match genre, as we have seen with their differentconventions and methods of acquiring their goals, Nicholas is requireand straight forward, Absolon is indirect and foolish and hence getspunished for it and John is truthful and gullible and does not haveAlison at the top of his list.