THE COMPARISONS TALE

In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's tone re-occurs to be satirical.  In the miller's tale, a carpenter was tricked into some crazy scheme by a man who was sleeping with his wife.  Chaucer used adultery to ironically satire the sin of lying.  This theme and tone were seen in the physician's tale, where a judge talked badly about a knight's daughter, which forced the knight to murder his daughter since nothing was proven, and his reputation was damaged.  By believing the lie that was spread by a character within their respective tales, the carpenter and the knight both suffered something great while goofy yet depressing outcomes became of the other characters who participated.