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nature and power. His horse was completely green as well, giving the reader an image of magic and fantasy that is firmly imbedded ...

any serious faults or weaknesses. As such the story has no frivolous moments, no humor for it si not necessary and was likely not ...

their waste, an interpretation borne out by Grandmas lines: "they ... fixed a nice place for me under the stove ... gave me an arm...

made of its mortality" (Dante 539). For Dante, then, "the way to God is found in human life. This was Abelards message. It was the...

Green Knight and comes across challenges which he seems to deal with honorably. At one point in the story he is staying in a won...

less intelligent, intuitive and passionate than Emma, and yet he "receives an education as a health officer which equips him for a...

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

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

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 ...

the challenge but it is Gawain who understands that this is not necessarily a wise move for Arthur is king and it should be one of...

Green Knight). The images in this are very powerful and clearly reflective of the power and presence of nature, especially in the ...

and Gawain attacks the Knight and cuts off his head, whereupon the Knights body picks the head up by the hair, gets on his horse, ...

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

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...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

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

At the conclusion of the poem, the Green Knight informs Gawain that his actions were the direct result of the commands of the conn...

emotion, to act. But what is Iagos motivation? It could in fact be that he is envious of Othello. At the same time, in reviewing...

feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...

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

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

an affair. The whole family was corrupt and unforgiving, but most importantly their downfall came at their very own hands because...

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

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

examples of literature to come out of Britain, the anonymous poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" thematically and symbolically ...

well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

cause of a king in order to help him, essentially asking nothing in return. There is another character, Unferth, who approaches B...

and so on. But what really sets Oscar apart is his style-or lack thereof. He wants to be cool and hip, but hes actually pretty sil...

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...