This is exactly the premise of the quarrel between the Miller and the Knight in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. ... The two narrators of the tales, the Knight and the Miller, are strongly contrasted in their introduction. ... After the Knight finishes his tale, the Host hopes to follow with a tale from the Monk, but the drunk Miller bursts in, insisting that he be allowed to tell his tale next. Then Miller then proceeds to tell a story that parallels the Knight's, yet serves to parody chivalry and undermine the Knight's tale. 3 The Miller begins his tale in the ...

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