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What is the importance of the description of Alison in the Context of the Miller's Prologue and Tale?

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June 13, 2015

 

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Alison's beauty cannot be separated from her animation and vitality. This, with a hint of naivety, is suggested by the comparisons to "kide or calf" and (twice) to a colt. Alison is soft as a "wether's wolle" and her voice is like the swallow's. A supple, sinuous quality of her figure is suggested in the simile of the weasel, which is clearly chosen to stress her sexual attractiveness...
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This is an interesting simile because a weasel has connotations with slyness and deception, both of which we later find out are qualities of Alison. We are also invited to think of Alison as a sexual being in the line "upon hir lendes (loins)" We can also infer that Alison is somewhat promiscuous (and therefore John has a right to "[hold] hire narwe in cage") because we are told that her shoes were laced on "hir legges hye" and we would only know that if her skirt was hitched up...
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