The Mutability Motif in 'The Miller's Tale'

Author / Editor
Mogan, Joseph J., Jr.

Title
The Mutability Motif in 'The Miller's Tale'

Published
American Notes and Queries 8 (1969): 19.

Description
Observes that carpenter John's sense of worldly instability in MilT is established in 1.3423-30 and 1.3449-50, anticipating his ready acceptance of Nicholas's prediction of the Flood later in the Tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale