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How Does Chaucer Parody To Courtly Love?
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... How Does Chaucer Parody To Courtly Love? After the Knight tells his story, the Miller insists very rudely to tell his tale. Chaucer uses the aspect of courtly love which is found in the Knights tale and makes a parody of it; He uses the Miller's character to mock the Knights idea of courtly love. Miller describes the heroine of his story Alison, as a wife of an older man and also an infidel. She's compared to a "wezele" sly and cunning. The description of Alison clearly indicates that she is very different from an innocent girl from courtly love stories instead she's well aware of her husbands jealousy and wears elaborate cloths to show off her beauty. "Of col-blak silk, withinne and eek withoute" Alison shows off that she's rich by wearing the most expensive fabric of silk at the time, again this adds to the opposite side of courtly love
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