one another in ways that show they are listening to the tales told and are responding. The Knight's Tale, for instance, provokes a response from the Miller, who does not like the sort of world depicted in it and who takes exception with its moral position. The Miller not only responds directly to the Knight but also tells a story which counters what the Knight has offered in his story. Indeed, this points to another method used by Chaucer to achieve balance--he balances each story with its Prologue, with the pilgrims interacting in the Prologue and the individual storyteller offering a point of view in his or her story. This pattern is found in other pairings of stories and characters, and there would likely have been much more of that sort of relationship had the work been finished and the order of presentation established. Consider some of these pairings and what they say of how Chaucer intended to achieve his structure and his balance.
THE REEVE'S TALE AND THE FRANKLIN'S TALE
Chaucer's intellectuals in The Reeve's Tale and The Frankli
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