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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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    What a perfect time to return home in Camelot. Even though i do not have a permanent residence in which i can call my home‚ King Arthur’s castle is the one place i can rely to be welcomed and treated as family. I refuse to complain‚ however after spending much of the year surveying the kingdom‚ i have grown quite tired. Only after arriving at the gigantic stone walls protecting the closest family i have‚ do i realize how much i missed being here. Upon entering‚ i am greeted with yells and shouts

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    the Reincarnate of King Arthur? Many speculations have been made trying to determine who is the modern day King Arthur‚ his reincarnate self. King Arthur‚ if he existed‚ was thought to be one of the greatest leaders of all time. There have been many legends about King Arthur‚ including that King Arthur would come back in the future during a dark era and bring the society back to the way it was. As for Doctor Ben Carson I believe that he is the reincarnate King Arthur. King Arthur and Doctor Ben Carson

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    Literary devices in the poem The Lady of Shalott. Tennyson uses multiple literary devices in "The Lady of Shalott‚" including simile‚ imagery‚ metaphor‚ and symbolism. In part three of the poem‚ Tennyson describes the details of Lancelot’s armor and horse: "The gemmy bridle glitter’d free‚   Like to some branch of stars we see   Hung in the golden Galaxy." (82-84) Tennyson uses a simile to compare the glitter of the horse’s bridle to the stars at night.  This simile also incorporates imagery

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    An unknown poet during the Medieval time period wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain is an Arthurian legend‚ a story about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table‚ centered on the protagonist Sir Gawain. In the poem‚ a Green Knight comes to challenge the king‚ but Gawain decides to go in place of the king. Gawain makes a deal with the Green Knight. If he can’t kill the Green Knight then the knight gets to try to kill Gawain in one year. Gawain fails to kill the Green Knight

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    that he uses his honor as a tool to make a better life for himself. This poem is about a mysterious green knight who goes to Arthur’s court in search of a competitor for his game. In this game the Green Knight’s goal was to test another knight’s chivalry and their will to not break its code‚ and Sir Gawain took the challenge in which he failed in his own eyes‚ but succeeded in the Green Knight’s. During this period

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    question why I was doing so. When the King tells him to throw the sword he does not really explain. On page 194 he basically tells Sir Bedivere that crying will not avail him. He tells him to take Excalibur‚ the sword‚ to the water’s side‚ and when they get there throw the sword into the water. Instead of Sir Bedivere throwing the sword into the water the story says‚ “Then Sir Bedivere hid Excalibur under a tree…”. Sir Bedivere continues to betray King Arthur twice‚ and is caught both times. He is

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    quest‚ damsels in distress‚ and a test of the hero. I will be focusing on an evil enemy and a near-perfect enemy for this analysis essay. A few classic examples of medieval romance are Beowulf‚ King Arthur and a main focus on Sir Gawain and the Green knight. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a story about King Arthur’s nephew‚ Gawain. The story is about a mighty green knight who comes to the round table wanting to play a game. A brave knight will strike the green knight with an axe once after a year

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    They used environmental attributes to make sense of the complexities they had. The first application of logic found in the movie was in the first scene with the use of coconuts. They argued about how King Arthur had coconuts here in a moderate climate while coconuts only grow in tropical climates. King Arthur’s explanation for this was that a swallow brought it back when migrating. The peasant said that is impossible because a little bird cannot carry a coconut while it migrates. Hence with no other

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    The quest for the Grail‚ which was most famously undertaken by King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table‚ symbolized the pursuit of union with God. Despite its significance in the Christian world‚ the Holy Grail is never mentioned in

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