10/26/14 ENCC-102-XN Professor Bauer Essay #2 A knight’s word is a powerful thing because knights are sworn into their positions and often opt for death over disgrace. Pride and honor along with respect and reputation are some of a knight’s main ethics and a knight must be a gentleman with a valued inner worth. In “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”‚ Sir Gawain’s inner worth is tested by The Green Knight by playing Knightly games. Each game represents certain virtues in life and gives ambiguous interpretations
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Games in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The theme of games plays a very important role in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In fact‚ much of the action that takes place in this story revolves around the playing of various “games.” When one thinks of the word “games‚” there are several thoughts that may come to mind. Sports‚ board games‚ and card games are all types of games that society today might be familiar with. The author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight uses different kinds of games than
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The Freemasons and the Templar Knights Bryon Hale Com 155 11/11/2012 Keisa Williams The Freemasons and the Templar Knights The Templar Knights‚ and the Freemasons are two well-known organizations. No matter whom you ask everyone knows something about both of these organizations. The more information that surfaces about these two organizations the more similarities between the two organizations begin to surface‚ and to some these similarities show that these two organizations are the same
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Religion is Ridiculous?: A Comparison/Contrast between The Nonexistent Knight and Chronicle of a Death Foretold Religion is a top the list of controversial subjects to include in works of literature. Italo Calvino and Gabriel Garcia Marquez do not blatantly state their positions on the subject‚ but yet surreptitiously use a backdoor approach to disperse their message. In order to communicate the ridiculousness of religion both authors construct characters and events representing religious
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The dark knight (2008) directed by Christopher Nolan is a movie of great enormity. It’s magnitude spans wide with a deep story as well as multiple underlying themes and morals. The story is based around three main characters: Batman (Christopher Nolan)‚ The Joker (Heath Ledger) and Harvey Dent (later Two face (Aaron Echart). The story is also influenced heavily by the characters of: Alfred j. Pennyworth (Michael Ciane)‚ Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman)‚ Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gylenhall) and Lucius
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Sir Gawain and The Green Knight and its underlying symbols Sweeney‚ Michelle. “Chapter 11 Lady as Temptress and Reformer in Medieval Romance.” Essays in Medieval Studies‚ vol. 30‚ 2014‚ pp. 165-178. Project MUSE‚ doi: 10.1353/ems.2014.0011. In Sweeney’s article she’s expressing that in many romances women serve as a piece of a formula to drive heroes away or towards their salvation. She evaluates other poems where this is an issue‚ but I’m only going to talk about when it is relevant to Sir Gawain
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white knight of Gotham‚ district attorney Harvey Dent. A pawn in the Joker’s game‚ he loses his fiancé and half his face in an orchestrated explosion. Dent‚ the once heroic emblem of justice‚ is perverted by a demented individual to his ultimate physical and ethical demise‚ culminating in a homicidal rampage and eventual death. As Dent himself articulates‚ “[y]ou either die a hero‚ or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” (Nolan). Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is
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The Dark Knight (Costume) Christopher Nolan’s distinctive use of Joker’s costume is greatly significant to the narrative of “The Dark Knight”; it provides insight to the iconic super villain of “The Joker” and highlights how this portrayal is modernised in comparison to past ones‚ showing how the super villain role has changed in superhero films. As with Jokers in all media types Health Ledger keeps with classic green‚ orange and purple attire. This strong‚ bright colour use is used to contrast
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Furthermore‚ in reference to the Green Knight many scholars have written on the subject‚ and few scholars discuss the Green Knight without first discussing John Speirs’ Medieval English Poetry. as previously stated many scholars discuss Bertilak’s ambivalent personality‚ yet as Benson states many focus too strongly on various myths instead of how the Gawain poet has modified these myths‚ such as Speirs‚ who claims that Bertilak “is the Green man” (225‚ italics Speirs’). However‚ as Benson notes
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What is the significance of being a hero? In Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns‚ I would like to address the theme of rebirth and its relevance to Batman. Batman’s rebirth can be seen through‚ his physical changes‚ superhero power struggle‚ and his death. Batman’s rebirth is witnessed by his initial physical changes. For example‚ Alfred points out‚ “Master Bruce. Whatever happened to your moustache” (20‚ 7).This physical change is what hints at a different stage or “rebirth” in Bruce Wayne
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