Significance and irony
The Miller’s Tale shows Chaucer’s perspective on this select group of people. This group being the lower class of that time period, and Chaucer being closer to the higher class. The members of higher classes in society viewed these lower class people as unsophisticated and generally unintelligent. For the modern setting that we live in it still can show how high class people view the lower class. Also it shows to not get married so young and immature. Irony is used in The Miller’s Tale when talking about Alison’s affairs. Alison talks about not wanting to kiss another man and saying that she will scream to alert the neighbors, but then she sleeps with multiple men besides her oblivious husband.