As a child, my mother always told me that it is very vital to know the Bible for yourself versus believing any and everything that someone tells you about the Bible. After reading The Miller’s Prologue and Tale, it is quite clear that the biblical story about Noah’s flood was twisted around in the Miller’s Tale. In the story, the carpenter was told by Nicholas that it was going to be another great flood like it was in the bible. Nicholas convinces the carpenter of such thing in order to be with his wife. One would believe that the carpenter would have had better sense than to believe such thing, but the carpenter displays biblical illiteracy by believing exactly what Nicholas told him. In results, Nicholas ultimately gains the carpenter’s wife.
