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

Compare and severalize how the three male characters are presented to usin The moth millers Tale and consider their roles in the Fabliau.The three male characters in Chaucers The Millers Tale present manyof the classic themes in and writing style Fabliau. In English litthere is only a infinitesimal amount of these fibs and half of those areChaucers. While in French literature there are over 300 stories.Nicholas is presented at the start of the tale as gentle (hende) shyand therefore trusted and experienced in passionate courtly heat, wecan tell from his appearance and description that he will be thestereotypical fabliau character who is cunning and always makes swordplayof the other more foolish characters. John the carpenter is given ashort description and it is clear by the way he speaks that he is notvery intelligent therefore his foolishness will be punished johnrepresents the stereotypical character of the duped husband (old andjealous).Alison is the faithless married wo man (young and sexually active).Sexual and practical jokes play a large dissociate in the Millers Tale, forexample Alison tricking Absolon into kissing her arse, this ideahowever comes from a raucous Middle English song called Old Hogans find. The fact that Nicholas is short and brawny in his mannerand speech contrast his feminist presentation at the start of thetale. The three characters of Nicholas John and the married woman Absolon fitsecurely into the fabliau theme of the love triangle a spot 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 selfish lustful ends, a major theme in many Fabliautales. Nicholas and Absolon c... ...fthe fabliau. The tale is ribald in context farce is a obvious form ofhumour in the Miller Tale as is irony. Chaucer plays off text againsttext to create ironic effect, the carpenter is a perfect ironic remedyto the Mi8llers advice of in the prologu e, we learn that the best wayfor husbands to avoid 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 distinctconventions and methods of acquiring their goals, Nicholas is directand straight forward, Absolon is indirect and foolish and hence getspunished for it and John is honest and gullible and does not haveAlison at the apex of his list.