THE REEVE

THE REEVE

• The Reeve is telling a story about a miller
• who steals a lot of grain from his customers.
• One day two clerks go to the miller to get some
• grain milled. The miller scares the mens horse away
• to distract them while he steals their grain.

THE REEVE

• The men spend all day looking for their horse
• And end up having to spend the night with the miller
• and his family. They are all in one room asleep. The clerks are
• angry about their grain being stolen and want revenge. One of the clerks
• has sex with the millers daughter and the other one takes the cradle

THE REEVE

• that is by the millers wifes bed and moves
• it by his bed when the wife leaves the room in
• the middle of the night. When she returns she gets
• in bed with the clerk thinking it is her husbands bed.
• Then the clerk has sex with her.

THE REEVE

• The miller wakes up in the morning and finds what happened
• The clerk and miller get in a fight and the clerk beats the
• miller up. The clerks leave and take the grain that was taken
• from them with them.

THE REEVE

• The Reeve is a person who believes that people
• who cheat and steal will have bad things happen to them

THE REEVE

• The Reeves story relates
• to the other characters we talked
• about because the miller is corrupt
• and steals from people

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• This story is relevant today
• because in todays literature and
• society people who cheat and steal are
• often punished and have bad things happen
• to them

THE REEVE

• Many people think that the
• bad people deserve the bad things
• that happen to them
• Do you think the miller in the reeves story
• deserves what happened to him?

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• The Reeves story is a form of romantic
• fabliau literature because it is based
• on trickery and deception and involves adultery.