Vocabulary.

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1. folly
2. surplice
3.beguile
4.remnant
5.woebegone
6.cloistered
7.wan

(The Miller's Tale)

The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale are two different stories. One is far more elegant than the other, much more romantic and exaggerated. The other one is funny and grotesque. Even though they are different and tell different love stories the character of the woman is important in both. Emelye in the case of the Knight’s Tale “That Emelye, who was fairer to be seen than is the lily upon its green stalk, and fresher than the May with new flowers” (1036 -1037). And Alisoun, “fair was this young wife, and moreover as any weasel was her body graceful and slender.”(3233-3234) two aspects of love are described in these tales but the fact that the woman is puffed up in both is something to take into account. Having read the Wife of Bath already makes me think that Chaucer gives importance to the female character making her either the problem or the protagonist of the story, it may be a way of saying that love or a relationship depends more on women than it does on men, even though men like to believe that they have complete authority.