"Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale"

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This paper discusses how the Miller's lack of virtue, as seen in his portrait and unsavory scatological tale, forms an aggregate text that works to disgust the reader.

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Michael Pertschuk states on the topic of gender roles and beauty that, "the stereotypical male has been depicted as fixated on female bodies while being largely oblivious of his own" (54). This is true of the Miller's character portrait in the Canterbury Tales. The Miller is described to be a despicable, burly man, who is involved in activities deeply rooted in masculinity. In his tale, the characters that emerge unscathed or victor of the mating competition fit what we could assume to be within his gender role paradigm.

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