Milun is the ninth lai in a collection called The Lais of Marie de France. It tells a story of Milun, a great knight with unmatched, who fell in love with a Baron’s daughter. Milun and the noblewomen begin having a love affair. Like most affairs there are consequences…
From the different time periods to the places you can tell these stories are completely different. The Scarlet Pimpernel took place in France during the French Revolution. On the other hand, The Old Man by the Sea took place in the Atlantic Ocean. In The Scarlet Pimpernel it was a much more crowded situation, with groups of people throughout the book. Although, The Old Man by the Sea was a much lonelier situation where it would be just the old man out in the ocean alone for long periods of time. While reading the Scarlet Pimpernel you learned that it was a harder language to read due to the fact that it was in a later time period that is why it might be harder to read. Also, while reading The Old Man by the Sea you should’ve learned that the moral of the story was the…
Ch.4: “My friends,” he said, with a gloomy shake of the head, ”It is far more serious matter than we supposed.” PG. 24…
Every story has a theme and authors all develop them differently. In the passages, The Count of Monte Cristo and a scene from Blessings, both develop their themes differently. Both passages have similarities and differences on how they develop a theme. One of them may make it more difficult to find the theme than the other. It’s not like someone would instantly know the theme unless you read the story or passage very carefully.…
The main female and male characters in “The Maltese Falcon” each have their own set of goals they want to achieve and the only way they can be achieved is with the help of private detective Sam Spade. The men in the novels utilize stereotypical masculine techniques such as intimidation, violence and bribery while women use not as aggressive techniques. The women achieve their goals by using stereotypical female techniques by using their innocence as well as their sexuality to seduce Spade into helping them. The men and the women in the novel put to use traditional gender specific means of leverage to get what they want.…
Within seconds of the movie starting, differences are already seen between the book and the movie. Although the movie was amazing and received very good ratings, it is obvious that the writers chose to not make the movie resemble the book several times throughout the movie.…
De France, Marie. The Lais of Marie De France. Trans. Glyn S. Burgess and Keith…
Milun, a knight of South Wales was recognized to be the best in battles. A girl had heard of Milun and confessed her love for Milun and he promised her his love and loyalty. He then sends her a token of his promise, a gold ring. “He gave her the ring and told her that he had done what she asked. The girl was delighted at the love she was being offered” (45). Their love was so deep for each other, she ended up getting pregnant. She was not very fond of this idea. She knew that Milun would be upset. “She told him what had happened she has lost her honor and good mane when she got herself into this situation” (57). She was terrified that she would be “tortured by the sword or sold into slavery” (61). When Milun heard about the situation, he was willing to do whatever she asked of him. He was sent to give the child in Northumbria to her sister. While he went away to deliver the child to her sister, she was set up by her father with a nobleman and she was taken away by her new husband. When he was traveling to Northumbria, he creates a messaging system with a swan, where he hides letters in between the feathers. As they send the swan back and forth to each other, he tells her to starve the swan and send it back so it looks for food on its way back home. This continues for an on-going twenty years. When Marie mentions the swan, it symbolizes this delicate and fragile love that is going on between the girl and Milun. When they starve the swan during the messaging, it represents this suffering love between them, but once it heads back, it flourishes. It portrays that love is not always a happy thing. There will be a time where love faces neglect. Throughout the story, Marie also mentions this idea of “the most direct route” (175). It portrays the idea of love being “the most direct route”. The fact that love knows where to go, there is no right, there is no left, it is a…
The novel entitled, The Count of Monte Cristo was written by Alexander Dumas. The story begins during the eighteenth century and takes place in the country of France. The environment is within the travelling adventures of men embarking on a ship called the Pharoan. The protagonist is introduced by the author as being, Edmond Dantes. This character is seemingly described as being an extremely trustworthy and very naive young man. He is a youthful sailor from Marseilles and is more or less favorably destined to become the next captain of the ship. While sailing abroad the ship named the Pharaon, the presiding Captain LeClure dies of what was then known as brain fever. Dantes assumes the acting position of commander and leads the ship back to Marseilles. The ship-owner, Monsieur Morrel, is overwhelmingly charmed to find that such a young man had the keen ability and skill to have mastered such a task. Monsieur Morrel makes plans to bestow Edmond Dantes as the official captain of the Pharaon. However, unbeknownst to Dantes this has gained himself four scheming and conniving cut throat enemies. These four characters within the story were noted as Danglers, Ferdinand Cadarouse and at his own account Villefort. Henceforth, each of the four men collectively betrayed Edmond Dantes for their own selfish reasons. However, Gerard de Villefort the prosecutor ultimately betrayed Edmond Dantes the most.…
letter *A* embroidered on her chest. The A served as a symbol of her crime, was…
Isabelle De Charriere, on the other hand, was born over one hundred years after the death of Loyseau and into a family of noble birth. In her autobiographical work, she begins to expound some criticisms of…
How is the theme of suffering portrayed in ‘Othello’, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’?…
‘O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on’…
The film Othello by director Oliver Parker, is based on the Shakespearean tragedy based on the insecurities of one man, being played upon leading to his undoing at the hands of the one he most trusts, ?honest Iago?. In this essay, we look at how this age old play is dealt with by the medium of film, reviewing the director?s ability to provide an effect caused by insight into the play?s mechanization and interpretation of such affected by visual mastery. This analysis focuses mainly on techniques and devices used to achieve this and their effect.…
Some of the best and mysterious literature is handed from generation to generation orally first and finally written down and preserved. Such is the case with two classics; Antigone and Alf Laylah Wa-Laylah or The Thousand and One Nights. Both of these stories center on the female character and the conflict that exists in the story. This paper will analyze the heroines in these texts; comparing and contrasting each woman’s role in their story and how their roles impact the characters and the stories.…