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Symbolism in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

Guinevere and Lancelot/Their Love in 2 Films

no adultery, save for stolen kisses, which of course are observed and thereby cause conflict, anguish for Arthur; exile for Lance...

Magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

it seems, and along with these stories there is always Gawain, illustrating a foundation of magic in the times, and in the stories...

Ideal of the Courtly Love Concept

the romantic saga of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, as depicted in Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or, the Kni...

Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender's 'Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job'

make a primarily positive impact or a primarily negative impact in the workplace. Workplace productivity is affected by a...

The Economic Insights of Alan Greenspan

" The meaning of deflation and the characteristics that differentiate it from the more usual experience of inflation are subjects ...

Aspects of Celtic Mythology

see a great deal of intent on magic in a Celtic wedding, where there are many ways in which to honor the mystical forces, some of ...

Marie de France, Chretian de Troyes, and Courtly Love

the help of a lion that he rescues from a serpent (Braswell). As this illustrates, the story leaves plenty of room for Ywain to p...

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Patons

And so, through the words of Alan Paton the reader is transported into the world of apartheid, and the grim realities that accompa...

Questions on Joinville, Yvain, the Koran, and El Cid Answered

more interested in material rewards here and now. He expected to be rewarded for his bravery and accomplishments. This was the way...

Post 1865 Minority Labor Organization Success

of child and convict workers. The movement opened doors for women, African Americans and immigrants that had up until then been s...

Critiquing Alan Moorehead's Fatal Impact

the cramping sophostries of civilization" (NA). However, while looking at the noble savage interaction and impact took place. A...

Exercise in Dante's 'Inferno'

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

Late Nineteenth Century Labor's Rise

that the people should participate (Bennett, 2001). In effect, the government should be run by the people (2001). This is not by a...

Classic Literature and Its Social Functions

all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...

Lancelot of the Lake by Corin Corley

laid down by the knight, the youth did not dare "utter another word, except to commend the wounded knight to God" and he also expr...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Theme of Desire in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Henry V

namely, the crown/ And all wide-stretched honours that pertain/ By custom and the ordinance of times/ Unto the crown of France" (S...

Historical Evaluation Death in the Venetian Quarter A Medieval Mystery by Alan Gordon

Constantinople during end of the Fourth Crusade. Theophilos the Jester, or Feste the Fool as his performing name, is placed in the...

Murillo and Velazquez Spanish Painters

what are called knickers today, and a dark cape that is full and is approximately the same length as the abbreviated pants. As ...

Analysis of Alan Lightman's “The Diagnosis”

has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...

Philip Marlowe as a Knight in The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

revealed. The reader is introduced to Marlowe as he is about to call on a potential client, the elderly, but very rich, General ...

The Social Significance of Alan Greenspan

this issue. In understanding his importance, some biographical information is useful. Alan Greenspan was born in 1926 and was ra...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' Lines 550 to 639 Analyzed

he could not possibly survive such a blow. Lines 550-639 of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" concern Gawains preparation for mas...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

Chivalry Changes in Literature

women... Defend the weak and innocent... / Fight with honor... / Avenge the wronged. / Never abandon a friend, ally, or noble caus...

Medieval Literature and Common Themes

is a serious offence. But Ganelon, the man who is held, has a friend who challenges his accuser to a match and the friend loses. T...