In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales there are twenty-nine plus one characters. Out
of the twenty-nine plus one characters two will be compared and contrasted. The
Friar and the Miller have some similarities and at the same time some
differences. The Friar and the Miller show a few similarities in Canterbury
Tales. They are both very strong and able to head butt things without a problem.
The Friar was,” strong enough to butt a bruiser down”(94). The Miller
was,” Broad, knotty, and short-shouldered”(109)”he would boast he could
heave any door off hinge and post, or take a run and break it with his
head”(101). The Friar and the Miller both played musical instruments in
Canterbury Tales. The both of them also had a way of cheating people out of
their money The are also a few differences the Friar and the Miller show. The
Friar, for instance, was part of the church; the Miller was not. Also, the Friar
has a name, Hubert. The Miller does not have a name. The instrument the Friar
plays isn’t the same as the Miller. The Friar,” played the
hurdy-gurdy,”(95) and also the harp. The Miller,” He liked to play his
bagpipes…”(101) Even though they had ways of cheating people out of their
money they had different ways of doing it. . The Friar would hear confessions
from the wealthy for a good price and,” The Friar was also the finest beggar
of his hatch”(95). The Miller had,” A thumb of gold, by God, to gauge an
oat”(101)! The Miller would press down on the weighing scale to make the oat
weight more. Therefore making the oat cost more. In Canterbury Tales there are
twenty-nine plus one characters. Out of the twenty-nine plus one characters, the
Friar and the Miller are compared and contrasted. Out of this comparison and
contrasting the outcome showed how the Friar and the Miller are alike and
somewhat different. Even though they do some of the same things like cheat
innocent people out of their money, they do it in different ways which make them
have differences.