moral perfection is a common theme in the arthurian cycle perfect courtly romantic devotion is considered in a parallel manner in Le Chevalier de la Charrette, thoughtfully but i think less skillfully than the treatment of honor and bravery in gawain's story
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the parallel is what is demanded of the protagonists: everything gawain must willingly surrender his life to demonstrate his bravery; lancelot his pride to prove his love incidentally the fact that pride is what is most dear to lancelot demonstrates that he sucks. fuck lancelot
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each faces two tests: lancelot, the cart and the joust; gawain, the knight's challenge on Christmas day, and his inevitable beheading the following year what makes gawain's story /better/ is that he passes his first test and fails his second
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and then, after he fails no one gets it he knows he fucked up. he knows he flinched and fell short of perfect his foe laughs and throws him a party and accounts him brave. arthur's court, all of whom flinched before the green knight's challenge, think hes a gigachad
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they even all adopt the sign of his shame as a symbol of pride to show that they're his buds and they love him. literally embroider it saying "this owns actually fuck the haters" hony soyt qui mal pence
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gawains trancendence comes from being humbled in failure and through this gaining an understanding--in spite of worldly acclaim--of what it would mean to truly Become Good. a vision of the Grail from then on even when in company he walks apart from other men
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This is THE story (at least for men). I love this story too
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Do you think there are any good depictions of femininity in chivalric romances? The stories do seem very masculine Off the top of my head I'm getting . . . Le Roman de Silence, maybe, and almost surely Julie Andrews in _Camelot_ if I can count that But I'm not sure of this
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I would love to give you and your daughter this gift. There are not many and I am not an expert but give me a couple days and I will send this to you. You remember when she was in the womb that I wanted to give a book. I will look for this book
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Oh Caroline that would be so kind of you. I'd love that--of course take all the time you like.
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Now it is my quest! You will never know how much you and
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i would like to have knowledge of this tome, if you please
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