밀러이야기, The Miller's Tale 에 관한 질문과 답변

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Ⅰ. The miller's prologue
1. First, read the description of the Miller in The General Prologue. What sort of person is he portrayed as in this description?
2. Who should tell next tale after the knight, according to the host? What does this say about the Host's attitude toward social class?
3. Who interrupts and offers a tale instead? What condition is he in? How does the Host respond, and with what results?
4. What sort of tale does the Miller say he is going to tell? Who will be his main characters? Why does Reeve react so negatively?
5. How does the Miller respond?
6. What does the narrator warn us about? Whose fault is it that this tale appears in The Canterbury Tales? What else does he tell us not to do?

Ⅱ. The Miller's Tale
1. what do we learn about the carpenter at the beginning of the tale? what relation to him is Nicholas? how is Nicholas described? what does it mean for the narrator to call him "hende Nicholas"?
2. What might be a problem with the marriage of the carpenter and his wife? read her description carefully. wha7. What does Nicholas tell John? Be sure you understand whaat they are to do. Why has Nicholas told this plan to John? Does John fall for it?
8. What happens when they get into the tubs? What do Nicholas and Alison the do, and why? Has the plan worked?
9. What does Absolon do and why? What happens when he arrives at the carpenter's house? Does he get the kiss he asks for? Is he happy? Be sure you understand what has happened. How do Alison and Nicholas respond?
10. How does Absolon respond? What does he bring with him when he returns to the carpenter's house? What happens this time when he asks for a kiss?
11. How well do Alison and Nicholas handle this emergency? How do they explain John's fall? How do the people respond to John's plight? What happens when John tries to tell them his version of what happened? Has John been treated fairly for his mistake in marrying a young wife?
13. Is the Miller's summary effective? Is it correct?
14. in the miller's breaking down of the social hierarchy in his interruption of the host's plans we may be able to see a bit of the social disruption that occurred on a much larger scale in the rising of 1381.

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The miller's prologue
1. First, read the description of the Miller in The General Prologue. What sort of person is he portrayed as in this description?
술에 취해 얼굴이 다소 창백하고 (The miller was so pale with drink), 그로인해 말 위에 가까스로 앉아있고 (that he could barely keep his seat upon his horse), 예의범절에 어긋난 모습에다가 (his manners were quite lost), 두건도 모자도 벗지 않은 상태이다 (He'd not doff hood nor hat).

2. Who should tell next tale after the knight, according to the host? What does this say about the Host's attitude toward social class?

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이야기의 처음 부분에 가장 먼저 니콜라스에 대한 설명이 나온다. 그 다음에 목수의 설명이 나온다. 목수는 자신의 어린 부인 앨리슨을 매우 사랑한다는 점을 알 수 있다. 그리고 학교를 다니지 않은 무지한 사람이라는 것도 알 수 있다. 니콜라스에 대한 설명은 존에 대한 설명보다 더 긴데, 그는 학자이고 점성술에 능하고 사랑에 능하며 투박함 보다는 섬세함에 가까운 인물이다. 즉, 굉장히 멋있고, 한량한 모습을 통해 유혹할 만한, 유혹을 한다면 넘어갈 만한 남자로 묘사하고 있다. 니콜라스는 존의 집의 하숙생으로 나오며 후에 앨리슨과 불륜 관계에 빠져 존을 골리는 역할을 한다.
narrator가 니콜라스를 hende nicholas 라고 하는데, hende 라는 것은 훌륭한, 낭만적인 이라는 뜻으로 로맨스에서 주로 나오는 단어이다. 이를 통해 miller가 앞의 기사이야기에 대해 비꼬는 것임을 알 수 있다.

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