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Malik Al-Mahrouky 12JRb How does the character of John contribute to the Miller's Tale? Although the Miller promises a tale in which a carpenter is ridiculed, much to the despair of the Reeve, John is criticized more as a foolish and uneducated old man, than a representative of his craft formidably for the genre of fabliau to occur. Fabliau was a genre that centre folded primarily on the mocking of the upper 'bourgeoisie' class via the lower 'proletariat' class which, from the perspective of a fourteenth century audience, seemed rather humorous as it enabled the viewing audience to apprehend the enactment of a lower, 'unworthy' working-class member: "Hende Nicholas", blatantly ridicule a professional, highly regarded individual within society: John. This would have been seen at the time, one of the venomous activities one could pursue to another as marriage, just beneath religion, was of the few highly regarded aspects in 14th...

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