The Millers Tale

The Millers Tale is a funny story from The Canterburry Tales an ancient book. The genre is a dark comedy because the reader laughs at the bad things that happen to the characters because they become funny.

Dark comedy is when the reader/viewer laughs or thinks its funny when something negative happens to one of the characters. In this case for example when Nicolas and Alison have an affair and they do tuff so John(Alisons husband) does not caught them. Nicolas plays being ill and Alison has to take "care" of him. Even when Nicolas invented John a long story telling him that here was going to be a draungh like in Noas Ark so he had to follow specific rules like not looking or touching his wife while  the draught happeed. At the end of the story he died and Alison and Nicolas said he died because he was madd, very crazy.

There is also dark comedy with Absalom who is a character that I considered very anoying because he was not an ineresting character that would anoye the reader by his dumbness. "...Crul was his heer, and as the gold it shoon,...And strouted as a fanne large and brode;" the way he is discribed made me think as if he was dumb and discordinated. Through out the story he was hitting on Alison but did not get annything from her because she liked Nicolas. When he even realized that she was havig an affair with Nicolas and wanted John to realize his plan did no pann out and Alison did not liked him more than what she used to. The ones that ended up winning were Alison and Nicolas because they got rid of John and making Absalom suffer in some scenes for example when he wanted to kiss Alison but he ended up kissing Nicolas; or when he is hitting on Alison while she is with John and he is out in the window screaming Alisons name.

I think that John and Absalom where characters fooled by others in the story and that is what makes it part of the dark comedy. Eventhough they were fooled and made fun of they formed the dark comedy in this story.