The Comparison Tale

The theme of the cook's tale was about thieving, drinking, gambling, and prostitution while in the tale of the miller the themes were tricks, adultery, and thieving. The common themes is thieving in the tale of the miller, Nicholas stole the carpenter's wife while the cooks tale had thieving from the master. Both had characters that should have been easy characters to trust, your apprentice, or your colleague/friend, In the end Chaucer makes both characters betray the master/colleague for their own personal desires. Loss of trust takes place after the master finds out and the gullible carpenter finds out. I find these stories to follow the same themes, people one should have been able to trust, but ended up deceiving for personal gain/pleasure. While they were supposed to be trusted personalities/characters reputation vs. one's character plays a role in this story.