Chaucer And The Humor Of The Canterbury Tales
My presentation is based an article titled The Inhibited and the Uninhibited: Ironic Structure in the Miller's Tale it s written by Earle Birney. The literary theme that Birney is discussing in his essay is structural irony. Structural irony is basically a series of ironic events and instances that finally build up to create a climax. The events and the climax the Birney chooses to focus his essay on are the events that lead towards the end when almost each character suffers an ironic event:
Absolon: kisses Alisoun's backside
Nicholas: gets his backside burned
John: falls from the tub and breaks his arm
Ironic events and play on words were used to lead to this ironic climax.
First Event
Birney writes that the description of each character as sweet or using the word sweet to describe them on Chaucer's part is ironic.
Nicholas: sweet singer, sweet smelling of herbs all day &
Being uninhibited. l. 97, l. 99., l. 107 Birney p. 76 middle......
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