Notes The “Lady of Shalott" is a Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson (1809– 1892). Like his other early poems – "Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere" and "Galahad" – the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources. Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem‚ one published in 1833‚ of twenty stanzas‚ the other in 1842 of nineteen stanzas. Modern critics consider The Lady of Shalott to be representative of the dilemma that faces artists‚ writers‚ and musicians:
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suit of armor" right before arrows charge at her. It’s hysterical‚ but it’s also telling of how female characters are traditionally sexualized in medieval texts. Even when they are depicted as not just being passive ornaments of the court like Lady Guinevere in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight‚ they are still reduced to the worth of their bodies as objects of desire for the male gaze. What the female travel companion is wearing in the scene of attack is essentially a
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uses his free will to choose whomever he wants at his Round Table. Fate leads to him choosing the wrong people. The table “breaks” and King Arthur loses control of his kingdom. Many soldiers gave up or died during the many battles. Lancelot and Guinevere still would’ve fallen in love. The fate of him becoming king leads to his downfall; losing all faith in himself. Achilles and King Arthur were both very‚ very ambitious men. In the end‚ their ambition catches up with them leading to the downfall
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Knights were praised but certainly not considered as perfect‚ even the best knight of all time‚ Lancelot‚ betrays his own king by having an affair with the queen Guinevere. But knights are still valuable and‚ most of all‚ perfectible. Criticisms were used to improve knights’ behaviours but‚ rather than diminishing the chivalric status‚ it proves knights’ primacy in both regular and fantasy worlds. Consequently‚ it creates a link between these two worlds. Knights are perfectible‚ yet they still
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city after the king did not give him any gifts. On his journey he encounters two girls sent by a fairy maiden to bring him to her; they fall in love and Lanval returns to the city promising not to speak of their relationship. However‚ after Queen Guinevere antagonizes him‚ he speaks of his love who claims has a more beautiful appearance than she does. This obviously upsets her‚ and she asks the king to put Lanval on trial. To escape punishment‚ Lanval must show his love‚ but she does not come to his
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“Lanval”‚ written by Marie-de-France‚ is one of the most entertaining piece of literature I have read from the medieval era. The story is based on a knight named Lanval who was rejected by the people surrounding him because he had every quality a knight during that time should have had. Even his king‚ Arthur‚ despises him and doesn’t appreciate him when Lanval has shown nothing but loyalty to him. Nevertheless‚ Lanval sets out on a quest where he met a beautiful woman that ends up being his lover
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The Tale Of Sir Percival of Gales Prologue. THE father of Sir Percival was that king high Pellinore who fought so terrible a battle with King Arthur as has been told in the Book of King Arthur. For it was after that fight that King Arthur obtained his famous sword Excalibur‚ as was therein told. Now‚ King Pellinore was one of those eleven kings who‚ in the beginning of King Arthur’s reign‚ were in rebellion against King Arthur as hath been told in the book aforesaid‚ and he was one of
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Courage is the will to do/say something regardless of the outcome. There is plenty of evidence and examples in the books and stories that seniors read in their English class all the time‚ like in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚” and in “The Divine Comedy.” “We gain strength‚ and courage‚ and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.” (Theodore Roosevelt) This is evident in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” when
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a passionate tale about a knight struggling with trying to do what’s right versus doing what is needed to do in order to stay alive. This poem is about the chivalrous romance of Sir Gawain and the Bertilaks. It goes through Sir Gawain’s personal struggles as he goes through temptations and trials set up by both Lord and Lady Bertilak. The poem describes how Sir Gawain accepts the challenge of the Green Knight and losses. Sir Gawain struggles to keep his bargain
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Marie de France’s ‘Lanval’ (Abrams‚ 2006. p. 142-157) is a 12th century lais that tells the tale of a knight who is caught between two different worlds; that of his lover’s and his own. Forced to live between both worlds‚ Lanval finds himself stuck between a world of solitude and a world of love. Through the trials and tribulations that result from the circumstances that he finds himself in‚ Lanval is confronted with the challenge of keeping his love with the Queen of Avalon a secret. This essay
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