A Variety of Love Throughout The Millers Tale Chaucer is exploring a variety of attitudes towards love There is the idealized and fashionable love of court romance an erotic love and there is superficial or conditional love and the devine unconditional love or love of God which is typically that from a devoted husband These mixed together gives an idea of love in The Millers Tale Three types of love are displayed for the same woman because of the way John the carpenter and husband Nicholas the
The Miller tells a tale of a young woman 18 exactly who becomes involved with an affair with a boarder at her husbands lodge and to keep the affair alive plays cruel tricks to get what she wants She seems respectable and beautiful from the cover but when examined deeper her every move revolves around a scandalous life of deceit and trickery Trapped in a completely loveless marriage Chaucers description of the young wife seems to suggest that she possesses such wild beautiful and desirable quali