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    search for the Holy Grail. The film shows several key points on the Holy Grail‚ such as what it is‚ and what its purpose served. The Holy Grail was said to have been used in the last supper as Christ’s cup‚ and it was used to catch His blood from the cross during the crucifixion. The Holy Grail is an important legendary artifact that many have searched for but never found‚ including during the biblical crusades in medieval times. The film had weaknesses such as that the Holy Grail had been found

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    Comparative Essay on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Monty Python and the Holy Grail It is impossible for a human being to fulfill all the ideals of the Chivalric Code and the seven Cardinal Virtues. Christian knights lived by the Chivalric Code to gain honor‚ but it was not possible even for the best and purest knights to always stick to these conventions of courtesy‚ generosity‚ loyalty‚ consistency‚ chastity‚ poverty‚ valor and skill. In addition to these components of the Chivalric Code

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    28 July 2012 Gatsby’s Holy Grail Long hailed as one of the great American novels‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald embodies the image of the Roaring Twenties to some readers; a time of new wealth‚ extravagant lifestyles‚ Prohibition‚ jazz‚ and flappers. The novel tackles the idea of the American Dream‚ as well as issues such as wealth versus class‚ infidelity and materialism. Both the character of Jay Gatsby and the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ are said to mirror Fitzgerald’s life – the Ivy

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    Barber‚ Richard. "Looking For The Holy Grail." History Today 54.3 (2004): 13-19. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2016. The grail represents mysticism in Christianity‚ according to Richard Barber; and Troyes account of Perceval seeing the holy object‚ is not a borrowed older idea‚ but the “first appearance of the Holy Grail in literature” (Barber 13). This story is an example of the spiritual journey that many Christians would undertake in the Age of Faith; the experience of the journey focuses

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    opens with Gurnemanz‚ who is a veteran Grail Knight‚ and four other Grail Knights sleeping outside in a clearing in the woods. When they wake up‚ they prepare a bath for Amfortas‚ the current King of the Kingdom of the Grail. Amfortas has an ailment‚ but it can only be soothed by a “blameless fool.” Kundry arrives‚ a woman who apparently brings fortune wherever she goes. Amfortas explains that Amfortas’s father‚ Titurel‚ was entrusted with the Holy Grail‚ the vessel that caught Jesus’s blood‚

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    Arthurian legends? Sir Lancelot is regarded as the first and greatest of King Arthur’s legendary knights. He fit into the legends for that reason‚ he was the first and the greatest of the other knights. 7. What was the Holy Grail? What role does it play in the King Arthur legends? The Holy

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    have rooms with mannequins on display with what people (knights‚ the kings and queens‚ servants‚ villagers‚ druids etc..) in those times would have worn‚ a room with Arthur’s throne and the round table‚ the holy grail and I would have a mini film playing explaining the legend behind the grail and the fisher king who guarded it. I would also have another room educating visitors about a leader called Ambrosius Aurelianus who led the battle of Mynydd Baddon (or as it’s also known‚ the battle of Mount

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    Modernization of romance elements in “Chivalry” by Neil Gaiman In Neil Gaiman’s short story “Chivalry”‚ an elderly woman finds and buys the Holy Grail in a thrift shop to use it as a decorative element in her house. At the same time‚ a knight from the Round Table is in the quest of finding this sacred object of God. This short story contains many elements of romance‚ such as the religious quest‚ love and adventure and courtly and chivalric life. By modernizing romance‚ Gaiman suggests that love

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    were eating dinner‚ but Hugh didn’t complain once. Dickon told Hugh that he shouldn’t wast his time on finding and fixing the missing pages from the book of Seynt of Graal. However‚ Hugh knew that the pages were not only important for finding the Holy Grail‚ but also because the book needed to be completed. On his way to visit Master

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    Lawhead shifts narrators in “Arthur”‚ and “Grail”‚ although “Grail” only has Morgian narrate a little at the beginning of most of the chapters. The novels in the series do not just go from beginning to middle to end. Instead‚ some of the books take place at different times and there will some overlap. Like

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