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    In Pearl Poet’s tale of one of Sir Thomas Malory’s characters in his classic tales of the great knight King Arthur‚ Poet tells a lovely story of Arthur’s‚ beloved‚ yet very underrated‚ Sir Gawain and his participation of a little game set up by the sorceress Morgan le Fey‚ to fight against the half -man‚ half-beast The Green Knight. In Poet’s tale‚ the writing leaves an almost warm and fuzzy feeling to the reader‚ and is truly an epic read‚ filled with comedy‚ romance‚ and adventure. In order of

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    Sir Gawain learns the path of being mortally humility‚ therefore throughout his journey there’s obstacles that the Green Knight supposes will help young night Gawain along the way in which as he knows (The Green Knight) Will pass but he wants to build him for stronger purposes. During the cold season he focuses whether or not he wants to go and being killed he assumed. As his journey goes‚ Gawain was invited to stay at a castle according to the poem “Sir Gawain and The Green Night” he was received

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    you think in the romance‚ “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”‚ Gawain had integrity?Did the Green Knight show integrity? Do you show integrity ? Well‚ do you know what it means to have or show integrity? The Green Knight tested Gawain’s integrity‚ by giving him three major test. The three major test that determined Gawain’s integrity were seducing‚ listening‚ and persuading. The first major test was to see if he could easily be tricked by the Green Knight’s wife. Gawain passed this test by not letting

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    Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight both were adventurous stories. Both were considered heroes and had many challenges to fulfill. They both faced many conflicts‚ trials‚ and endangerments along the way. They both were praised for their good duties. Beowulf was labeled as a prince while Sir Gawain was labeled as a knight. To me‚ Beowulf appeared to be too perfect. It is like he was never wrong. I can relate more to Sir Gawain‚ because he was more realistic. Sir Gawain puts his life at risk

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    would know your decision‚ would you stick by them or go astray? Sir Gawain was tested on his chivalrous code as a knight twice‚ first privately and the second publicly. Gawain fails the first test and passes the second. The natural urges for sex and instinct for survival are exemplified through the tests in this literary work. The first test Gawain was presented with was the resistance of sexually immoral temptation. Although Gawain does not literally lay with the lord’s wife‚ he still gives in

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    Themes of Cervantes’ Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes’ greatest work‚ The Ingenious Gentleman‚ Don Quixote De La Mancha‚ is a unique book of multiple dimensions. From the moment of its creation‚ it has amused readers‚ and its influence has vastly extended in literature throughout the world. Don Quixote is a county gentleman disillusioned by his reading of chivalric romances‚ who rides forth to defend the oppressed and to right wrongs. Cervantes presented the knight-errant so vividly that many languages

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    This next literature I will be discussing is “Don Quixote” written by Miguel De Cervantes which has a powerful message of social classes. This story tells you a lot about social classes and how it everyone is treated differently within the classes. Don Quixote is an old man who has read a lot of books about knights and decides to be come one. He is a very weather man and is one of the smartest people in his town. He set off on a great adventure in pursuit of eternal glory and drops what everything

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    full orchestra to wind band to small jazz combo. One of the most prominent examples of program music is Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Quixote. This tone poem tells the story of Miguel de Cevantes Saavedra’s novel The Adventures of Don Quixote. The story of the hero Don Quixote is one of insanity and delusion that Strauss was able to depict very well. Don Quixote was a middle aged man that read too many books about knights and their heroic deeds. This is shown by three different themes given

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    Don Quixote: Reality of Insanity Miguel De Cervantes ’s "Don Quixote" is a well thought out satire of medieval romance novels. He illustrates the rotting of people ’s minds by creating a man who embarks on a fabricated knightly quest. An interesting fact is that Cervantes himself tried to write romances of chivalry‚ but did not succeed. Don Quixote ’s detachment from reality serves as a comical approach to a culture escaping from reality. The pastoral romances of Cervantes ’s time were generally

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    Comparison between Erec and Enide and Don Quixote The famous Spanish novel‚ Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is a parody for epic. It mimics traditional epic in a funny way so as to destroy the conventional expectation behind this serious genre. Therefore‚ its plot structure can be compared with Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec and Enide ‚a classic romance epic in Late Middle Ages. In Erec and Enide‚ the value of chivalry‚ courtly love and guest and host relationship may be found in this work. Speaking

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