The Lais Of Marie De France: Literary Analysis

The Lais of Marie de France offers an inquisitive perspective on the nature of love and the sacrifices one must make in relationships and marriage. While reading, I encountered many examples of a man and woman in love who must suffer for one another. This collection of narratives contains characters in relationships in which each partner suffers equally for one another and characters in which one partner sacrifices more than the other.
In the first narrative “Guigemar”, when Guigemar is wounded from an arrow while hunting for deer, Guigemar learns that in order to be cured, he must find mutual love with a woman in which she suffers for him and he suffers for her. “Neither physician nor potion, will cure you of that wound in your thigh, until