Gender Role Reversal in The Miller's Tale
Gender Role Reversal in The Miller's Tale People who read The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer may easily be able to tell the writing is from the Middle Ages because of the vulgar humor and gender roles set in some of the Tales. For this project, The Miller's Tale will be examined to show that amidst all of the dark humor, the character’s gender roles are very different in relation to the time period it was written in. Therefore, in Miller's Tale, even amidst the dark humor, the gender roles of the female and male characters are seemingly reversed. To continue, although this was written in 1392, in the late Middle Ages, the character of Alisoun seems to have the power that women of this time period did not easily have. Accordi...