The power of love causes individuals to react in many different ways. In the Lais of Marie de France‚ each story of love produces a different outcome. For a story’s relationship‚ whether it involves lovers‚ siblings‚ or parents and children‚ there is one similarity hidden beneath the facades that make up each story; love. The characters involved make drastic changes to their lives in order for their relationship to survive. Throughout many of the tales‚ the protagonists succumb to the pain of
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The life cycle is a major subject of literature as old as perhaps humanity itself‚ with each society having a different view or expectations regarding trials and acceptance. “Lanval” by Marie de France is an allegory for the stages of life‚ beginning with conception and ending in death. These stages are exemplified through Lanval’s evolution from a lonely knight into a popular and generous member of society. The trials of adulthood are seen in his controversy with the court and king due to Lanval’s
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In the story of “Lanval” by Marie de France‚ the titular knight of King Arthur’s court falls in love with a beautiful‚ otherworldly maiden‚ a maiden who warns Lanval that he must keep their affair a secret if it is to continue. Anytime he wishes to see her‚ he merely needs to think of a pure place and she will join him there. When approached in lust by the Queen and accused of homosexuality‚ Lanval reveals that he is in love with a woman more beautiful than the Queen. By revealing the secret‚ he
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Credit Default Swaps Credit default swaps are the transfer of third party credit risk from one party to the other party. The purchaser of the swap must make the payments until it reaches the maturity date of the assigned contract. A better understanding of CDS is “One party in the swap is a lender and faces credit risk from a third party‚ and the counterparty in the credit default swap agrees to insure this risk in exchange of regular periodic payments (essentially an insurance
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Treasury Risk Management CURRENCY AND INTEREST RATE SWAP _A CASE STUDY OF THE AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET_ ABSTRACT Business transactions occur on the international front and there are laws and regulations regarding the pricing of the long-term forward exchange contracts. It is noted that the violation of the traditionally covered interest arbitrage pricing relation has been rampant and that the activity in the international currency and interest rate swap markets offers a substantial
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Credit default swap (CDS) Credit default swaps‚ also known as default swaps‚ credit swaps and CDS‚ are the basic building block of thecredit derivatives market. Almost all credit derivatives take the form of a credit default swap‚ adn most of these swaps are based on a standard legal contract know as a confirm. An over-the-counter contract to transfer the credit risk of a reference entity‚ in which the protection buyer pays a premium and the protection seller makes a payment in the event of a default (credit
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Is there such a thing as a negative assemblage? In Marie de France’s Equitan‚ we see how the love affair between the king and his seneschal’s wife is wrong and will have terrible consequences for them in the end. Marie is clearly subverting the courtly love virtues of the time (like ones espoused in Guigemar for instance) in her cynical (rather than sincere or straightforward) presentation of the love affair. In the courtly love tradition‚ love was not really love without pain and suffering. Truly
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The Controversial Heart In “The Lais of Marie de France: Les Deus Amanz” Marie de France uses affections of the heart and mind to contradict one another. Two of the main characters each have fatal flaws that become the cause of their demise. The king and the noble young man acted selfishly by following their hearts instead of their heads‚ causing problems that could have been prevented. It is seen that using your mind would benefit more than going by the feelings in your heart. The king is
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Comparing the representation of love by both authors Gottfried von Strassburg and Marie de France‚ there are some subtle differences. With Marie de France’s representations of love‚ the characters who remain faithful and selfless in their passion of love are rewarded‚ whereas those who are selfish lovers are punished. Marie de France demonstrates that an affair is justified when one is within a loveless relationship based on social arrangement. An affair based on passion and equality is justified
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The Lais of Marie de France The Lais of Marie de France are a collection of short stories that depict situations where love arises. The author presents love as a complex emotion and demonizes it and praises it in certain instances. She is not always in favor of love as is described by the outcomes by some of the lovers in the story‚ such as when they either end up dead in the end or banished because of their love. The author presents this notion of love because she believes it is not always justified
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