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Chaucer, Geoffrey. “1.3 The Miller's Prologue and Tale.” 1.3 The Miller's Prologue and Tale, https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/millers-prologue-and-tale.

Kaai, Krystal. “Sympathy and Revolt in the Miller's Prologue and Tale.” Williams Prize, https://lsaw.lib.lehigh.edu/index.php/williams/article/view/144/31.

Zieman, Katherine. “Chaucers Voys.” Online.ucpress.edu, Univeristy of California Press, https://online.ucpress.edu/representations/article-abstract/doi/10.2307/2928806/82532/Chaucer-s-Voys?redirectedFrom=PDF.

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The overall message, in the Miller's tale, is that lust and greed lead to Karma and revenge. While the carpenter loved his wife, the scholar, his friend pursued and usurped her love away from her husband. Although he ended up with Alison in the end, it caused him bodily harm at the hands of the heart broken Parish. Some researchers can argue that the Miller's tale was used as a fear tactic for nobles to think less of peasants; I think it was simply a means to bring about joy to the audience.

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"The Miller, who for drunkenness was all pale...began to cry, and swore, "By (Christ's) arms, and by blood and bones, I know a noble tale for the occasion...For I will speak or else go my way." (Chaucer). There was an order for the tales to be told. The miller, a cherl (peasant) cared not for order but simply wanted to be heard. I think Chaucer wanted the readers to feed into the stigma that peasants were in fact rude and uncouth based on the drunken actions of the miller himself.

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-The drunken Miller must tell his humorous tale about the carpenter and his wife. He monologues that if he cannot, he will leave.
-His tale begins with the description of the carpenter, an older man, named John.
-John married the beautifully young Alison, and spent his days in paranoia at the thought of everyone wanting to sleep with his wife.
-The Miller goes on to introduce a tenant that lives with the carpenter, Nicholas, and later on a lowly parish, Absolon. Nicholas falls for Alison, who in turn reciprocates the scholars love under the nose of the clueless carpenter. Absolon, the poor fool, falls head over heels in love with Alison, making it a daily habit to stop at her window and attempt to woo her with gifts and song.
-In the grand scheme of things, Nicholas, the ever clever man, hatches a plan to trick the carpenter and finally have Alison to himself. Thanks to the carpenter's foolishness, he prepares for a flood to come, planning and taking the precautions he was told to take by his wise scholarly friend. At his  poor expense might I add. Absolon continues his attempts to woo Alison only to be made a fool of in the middle of the night, by both Nicholas and Alison.
-Absolon in true revenge fashion, gets back at Nicholas by scalding his ass with a fire poker, alerting the carpenter to the "flood" and causing the man to "release the latch" on the barrel he had barricaded him in.
-The Miller's story ends with John being mocked and made a fool of, as Alison and Nicholas get away with their plotting and scheming by convincing the town the carpenter is actually mad.

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The Miller's tale was believed to be a jab at the class system. The miller was a peasant telling the story of other low income individuals in hopes of spreading fear to the nobles. Historically speaking, 1300's England was full of nobles, and peasants all trying to find a way to exist together. The miller's tale from a nobles perspective would be interpreted that those of the lower class were practically animals in comparison to their high class counterparts.

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In the story itself, the Miller is telling the story of a simple Carpenter and his wife. In an article written for the William Prize competition, Author Krystal Kaai believed the carpenter was meant to represent a fear of the lower class. "...common laborers-as embodied through the character of John the carpenter-were negatively depicted as ignorant, foolish, and submissive people in order to appease elitist fears..." (Kaai).

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In the same article, the Miller is believed to be portrayed as a lowly peasant by Chaucer with a learned academic discourse. "The Miller's Tale is not simply a badwy peasant story, it is a bawdy story told by a peasant that resonates ironically with the disparate literary and academic discourses." (Zieman).

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In an article written by Katherine Zieman, in the 60th Volume of the book representations, the Miller is described as, "...a peasant-a "cherl"( Zieman).

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The narrator of this story is the Miller himself. He has had a bit to drink, but even so he has a humorous story to tell.

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To start, here is a copy of the Miller's Tale in its original English as well as a translated version from The Harvard University Geoffrey Chaucer Website.

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Heere folwen the wordes betwene the Hoost and the Millere Here follow the words between the Host and the Miller Heere bigynneth the Millere his tale. Here begins The Miller's Tale. 3537 "Yis," quod this Carpenter, "ful yoore ago." "Yes indeed," said this Carpenter, "very long ago."