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A Comparison of the knight's tale and the miller's tale

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A Comparison of The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale
“Yet as good as The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale are alone, their triumph is in dialectic. When read together, they produce a complex literary experience much greater than the sum of their individual parts (Bensen, 135).” Both The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale tell stories of love, with variations of the same beautiful imagery, character, and situation. The Knight’s Tale tells a story of the traditional courtly love, while The Miller’s Tale sits from a lower class point of view and turns the knight’s idea of courtly love into a shorter, disgusting farce. Although The Miller’s Tale seems to be a parody of The Knight’s Tale, it does not lack the same quality of The Knight’s Tale.
The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale have many similarities, one of them being the situation of each of the tales. The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale parallel in the plot of each story, for...

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