Preview

Camelot Summary: The Lady Of Shallot

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
543 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Camelot Summary: The Lady Of Shallot
Plot Summaries “The Lady of Shallot” begins with a description of a field by a river that leads to Camelot. Then, there is an island in the middle of the river called the Island of Shallot, with a castle on it. In the castle lives the Lady of Shallot, who no one every sees but sometimes hear. Part two describes the Lady of Shallot. She is cursed and weaves. She cannot look out of her window, but she can see through a magic mirror. She weaves what she sees. Then, Sir Lancelot rides by the island, when the Lady sees him she breaks the rules of her curse. The mirror cracks and she then leaves her castle. The Lady sets off in a boat that has her name on it. She sings and drifts towards Camelot, dying before she gets there. The people of Camelot,

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Ulysses had now lost everything except his own ship. This ship came to the island Aenea, which Circe, a powerful witch, used to rule. .…

    • 325 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    The image of “Our Lady of Controversy” presented by Alma Lopez carries powerful imagery invoking activism and expression. Compared to the original Virgin Mary Alma Lopez’s version presents a strong looking woman as opposed to usually being seen as conforming and gentle. There are multiple symbols that supply significant meanings for Chicana Feminists.…

    • 362 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    While dancing in the forest, a group of girls go dancing with a slave. The local minister catches the girls. As one of the girls fall into a coma like state, rumors begin to circulate in town. Doubt, questioning, and rumors of witchcraft fill the air in the small Salem town. Throughout the story, the author uses hysteria to evoke chaos, doubt of one’s neighbor to create fear in the townspeople.…

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Alice, the friendly but suspicious granddaughter of Mother Malkin, who is one of the most powerful Witches in the whole County. The basic plot of the story is, the Spook and Tom head to Priestown to attend to some unfinished business.…

    • 437 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Lady Capulet Monologue

    • 191 Words
    • 1 Page

    Lady Capulet tries to convince her daughter, Juliet, to marry Paris by telling her how beautiful he is, how he has many good qualities, and how he needs a wife. Lady Capulet uses a metaphor to describe Paris to convince her daughter to marry him, comparing Paris to a book of love that is missing a cover. After Lady Capulet encourages her daughter, Juliet, to see Paris’s beauty by telling her to examine his features, she expresses, “Find written in the margent of his eyes. This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him only lacks a cover.” This quote demonstrates how Lady Capulet uses a metaphor, comparing Paris to an interesting book of love without a cover, to convince her daughter to examine him at the feast that her…

    • 191 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The story of The Witch of Blackbird Pond has many different parts to it. It takes place in the Connecticut Colony in the year 1687, is about a girl trying to fit into the new Connecticut lifestyle, and she goes through changes in her personality and characteristics as she learns to live in humility. The author of this book uses many details, creating a more vivid picture in the readers mind. It is also written in Katherine’s perspective, which allows the reader to get to know her personality better. Along with the details, the book has a good storyline, which has some good morals throughout.…

    • 843 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    However, it is not your typical dirty, dungeon tower; it is beautiful. Marie describes it as a “thick, high wall made of green marble.” In the inside, the walls of the tower are covered in paintings of venus, the goddess of love. Her husband even provided her with a noble and intelligent servant. However, the beauty of the tower and her servant was not enough to please the wife. She was trapped in the tower day in and day out and was never allowed to leave without her husband’s permission. She was a damsel in distress who needed…

    • 1019 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The town begins to go mad with proclaiming every wrongdoing or accident is an example of witchcraft. Many arrests are made and the women are held in front of the town’s council. The way the scenes unveil is a sense of craziness. The looks in the town’s people’s eyes are looks of vengeance and their quick grabbing movements at the young women show their carelessness.…

    • 1220 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The play, The Crucible, is about a group of girls that go dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. While dancing, they are caught by the local minister, Reverend Parris. One of the girls, Parris’s daughter Betty, falls into a coma-like state. People gather in the Parris home while rumors of witchcraft fill the town. With the fear of being accused of witchcraft, the girls start accusing others of bewitching them. Abigail Williams…

    • 603 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    After Johns vomits from the disgust of viewing hundreds of identical twins in the Factory where the Bockanovsky process is put into practise, he goes on to find that the State's library does not have Shakespeare.…

    • 353 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Ismae Archetypes

    • 587 Words
    • 3 Pages

    After she is sold her husband Gruillo finds out that she is the daughter of death( page 5). He freaks out and puts her in a food storage room (page number here). Then the priest takes her to a the convent (page 6 and 7). Which represents the call to adventure because that's when she is brought to the place where she learns everything. The convent is a place where all the daughters of death live together and learn how to fight, kill, and make poisons.…

    • 587 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    sociology notes

    • 654 Words
    • 3 Pages

    She herself is trying to sing a better song (better herself and discover herself) and do something with her life…

    • 654 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The play, The Crucible, is about a group of girls that go dancing in the forest with a black slave named Tituba. While dancing, they are caught by Parris, the local minister. One of the girls, Parris’s daughter Betty, falls into what was close to being in a coma. People gather in the Parris home while rumors of witchcraft fill the town. With the fear of being accused of witchcraft, the girls start accusing others of bewitching them. Parris questions Abigail Williams, the girls’ ringleader, about what happened in the forest. Abigail, who is Parris’s niece and…

    • 545 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, the narrator introduces many characters in “The Prologue.” Twenty-nine strangers embark on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, one of them being the Wife of Bath. In “The General Prologue”, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”, and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, the Wife of Bath is described in a very critical, yet amusing way.…

    • 583 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennynson is a reflection of the Victorians ideas, who show how the women was seen in society, and as an artist. The poem can be approached from the Carl’s Jung perspective, because of the archetypes that can be identified and analyzed, namely the Shadow, the Anima/Animus, and the Self. Of course this is not the only method in analysing the poem, but by using this I try to explain what is happening with The Lady from this point of view.…

    • 679 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays