| Anthony Kozlovsky 11/02/2010 11:54 AM |
The reason why this tale is a fabliau is because how he makes fun of The Miller in the tale. He uses comedy to make the miller look like an idiot when the students steal back their goods. I think that some of the features of human nature that are exaggerated are things such as jealousy, greed, and maybe some karma. The Reeve exaggerates jealousy because the people that the Miller invites to stay the night end up having sex with both his wife and his daughter. It shows jealousy because these random people can get some from them and The Miller is not able to. Greed comes into picture when The Miller steals from them. He is to greedy to either make his own flour or go buy some with the money that he has. Karma is one of the bigger exaggerated types of human nature in The Reeve’s Tale because the Miller steals the flour but then karma bites him in the butt because he ends up getting hit in the head by his wife and the guest end up stealing the flour back from him.
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| Trevor Rupiper 11/01/2010 4:42 PM |
I am responding to John Raye's post. I believe that John did a good job on explaining his answer to the question. He used good details and some imagery and parts of the story. He also did a good job on the length of his response to the question. I believe he summed up the question with a lengthy and good answer with explanation. Overall I would say John did a good job. |
| John Raye 11/01/2010 10:52 AM |
I believe that revenge is exagerated in the tale. Example is when the Miller is talking bad about carpenters and then the Reeve tells a tale about the Miller to get back at him. |
| Miss Schultz 10/30/2010 1:07 PM |
How is this tale a fabliau? What features of human nature are exaggerated in this tale? Why do you think The Reeve exaggerates these features? Be sure to use examples from the text to support your answer.
POST IS DUE TUESDAY NOV. 2nd |
| Anthony Kozlovsky 10/27/2010 2:39 PM |
My post was pretty much just like John’s. I agree with him 100%. Chad- Don’t you think that it could be true and the Miller knows it so he tries and deny it all? He can deny it all he wants about not believing what he says, when deep down he knows that it is all true and doesn’t want other people to know about it. So he tries and denies it. |
| John Raye 10/26/2010 2:26 PM |
I agree with Anthony because its worse what happened to the Miller then what happened to the Reeve. I do not agree with Chad because he says the Miller could denie everything, but couldn't the Reeve denie everything as well. |
| Anthony Kozlovsky 10/23/2010 5:33 PM |
I read a summary of the miller’s tale so I would have the best understanding of the situation I do believe that he succeeds at “getting back”. I believe that the Reeve’s tale is more embarrassing than the Miller’s tale because in the Millers tale the gist of it is that the carpenter only breaks his arm and his wife has sex with another man, but in the Reeve’s tale he takes it so much farther that the Miller did. The Reeve makes fun of the miller with the use of karma. The miller unties the horse so that it is a distraction so he can steal the flour. But since it was night when they caught the horse he let them stay. That’s when one of the two visitors has sex with his daughter and the other one has sex with his wife. But after all that the miller tries to beat the visitors but his wife ends up hitting him in the head with a stick. Then the visitors took back what he stole. |
| John Raye 10/22/2010 2:54 PM |
Yes I believe he succeeds at getting back at the Miller. In the tale it tells of these two students, Allan and John, going to the mill to grind some grain. The Miller has been stealing grain from the school for a while now. Allan and John are out witted when the Miller unties thier horses and lets them go. Allan and John go chasing after the horses letting the Miller to steal their grain. Allan and John not getting back till the mill untill late, needed a place to stay. They said they would give the Miller money to feed them and shelter them till the next day. The Miller going to bed drunk that night and passing out, didn't realize that Allan and John had sex with his wife and daughter. It was pitch dark and Allan crawled in bed with the Miller thinking it was John and telling him how he took the Miller's daughter. The Miller grabbed Allan's adam apple and in return Allan hit him right in the nose and they both dropped to the floor. The wife woke and reaches for a stick to beat those students, but what she thought was one of the students was accually her husband. So at the end of the tale the Miller is the one who got out-smarted and made a fool. |
| chad trudell 10/22/2010 9:08 AM |
No I don't think he did because the miller just deny all the things that the reeve said that he did. The Miller said that I don't care a straw about what he said. |
| Miss Schultz 10/18/2010 10:41 AM |
The Reeve tells this tale to get back at The Miller for telling a tale about a silly carpenter that gets fooled by a cleric and a parish clerk. The Reeve, a carpenter by trade, was offended by the negative portrayal of a carpenter. Do you think he succeeds in "getting back at" The Miller? Why or why not? Include specific details from the text and the Reeve's characterization of The Miller in his tale. |
