Upon comparing the The Miller's tale and The Knight's Tale, they both seem to have some common points. Love, greed, jealousy, are all important aspects too these stories. In the nights tale you had two knights Arcita and Palamon who were cousins. They ended up fighting each other to win over the girl called Emily. The story ends in the death of one cousin,(Chaucer lines:693-696) "O Sire, what need for more ado? We have deserved our deaths at the hands of you. Two woeful wretches are we, two captives That are encumbered by our own sad lives;". Both stories were really arbitrary the way the end. Such as in the Miller's Tale these three men are all after the same woman, and she is very callow because she is young. She likes to mess around with their heads which isn't good because it ends up in result with the town thinking her husband is mentally insane. Basically these two teach morals about being in love and what are the consequences that can come from obsession. With these stories they have a contiguous flow about what messages they teach about the seven deadly sins.
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Graham,
-I think you could combine your first two sentences into one topic sentence. You could also combine sentence three and four
-Nice central argument in the two first sentences though
-Use "/" marks to indicate a break in the line.
-Nice incorporation of the vocabulary words within the paragraph
-You have a good wrap-up section at the end of the paragraph; however, I would you to go into even more depth about how each story connects to the Seven Deadly Sins you mention as you explain each story
-incorporate some delayed adjectives into the writing
-This could potentially be used as a good starter for your Medieval essay
Grade: 22/25
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