Hello, Erenate, Beatrice Twiddle thought. She cautiously walked down the road as she looked around, observing the kingdom’s people. Up in the distance, she could see a crowd of girls her age screaming and jumping up and down outside of the royal castle. Huh, she wondered. What are they so excited about? She looked at her best friend, Delila Butterfly, who didn’t respond, and decided to pick up her pace. Soon, she reached the group of enthusiastic and eager ladies.
“What’s going on?” she asked curiously. Two of them turned around and laughed.
“Don’t you know anything?” one of them smirked.
“Oh, don’t mind her. Sir Connor O’Rollin’s looking for a personal maid!” the other one grinned.
“Sir Connor O’—Who?” Beatrice repeated blankly.
“Ugh, you’re new here aren’t you? He’s only the BEST PERSON WHO EVER LIVED! He’s a knight and totally attractive!” the first girl swooned. “Anyway, he’s looking for a personal maid. That means that you’ll get to be with him twenty-four/seven!”
“Well, thank you for telling me all of that information,” Beatrice nodded and walked away. “What do you think, Delila? I came here for a fresh start, anyway. Maybe I should apply for the job?”
“I flew to the announcement banner while those girls were talking to you, Bea,” Delila said. “He starts looking for his maid tomorrow morning. Go for it!”
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“Hello, my name is Beatrice Twiddle. I’m from the kingdom of Trensawt. I’ve never had a job before, but I’m very responsible and reliable,” Beatrice said to the handsome knight.
“All right, you’ve got the job. I’m much too fabulous to waste my time hearing the same girls disguising themselves to have another chance to get hired. Just one...
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... was fake.”
“Excuse me? Delila, I mean Mother, are you saying that this thing was a test? My whole life, I’ve been living a lie? How could you?” Elizabeth asked, hurt.
“Well, you see, I’ve been teaching you magic ever since you were a child, Lizzie. It was prophesied that a female O’Rollin would become a great wizard. Now we know it’s true! You’re the great wizard, darling, you are!”
“I am?” Elizabeth repeated in disbelief. The two hugged and cried in joy. “I love you, Mother,” she whispered.
“Hello? The handsome knight is over here! Don’t forget about your son and brother,” Connor butted in. The mother and daughter laughed and let him join their hug. “You know,” he said, “Beaty might be a powerful wizard, but I’m still the ladies’ man!”
Delila laughed.
Elizabeth, on the other hand, screamed a scream that could be heard a mile away, “MY NAME IS NOT BEATY!!!”
Gawain is a gentleman, who would never kiss and tell, so the two reaffirm their pact for the next day. The lord’s determination in “pursuing the wild swine till the sunlight slanted” is paralleled by his wife’s determination in seducing Gawain as “she was at him with all her art to turn his mind her way” (188). Lady Bercilak attempts to exploit Gawain’s reputation as she tries to seduce him. She greets him in the bedroom and coyly asks how “a man so well-meaning, and mannerly disposed.cannot act in company as courtesy bids” (189). Lady Bercilak is not subtle (she points out that the door is locked and the two are alone in the castle) as she offers herself to Gawain, saying, “I am yours to command, to kiss when you please” (189).
Women were always viewed as weak, dependent, and powerless in the Middle Ages. Not only is it a common view during that time period, but this also is often stereotyped labeled to women today as well. In the romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hatred of women is portrayed throughout. However, while women are certainly looked down upon, they also are influential to the knights. This romance also portrays how a woman having different characteristics, could change the way she was viewed as well. Although women in the Middle Ages appeared to lack power, the women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight have a hidden influence over the men and actually drive the action of the medieval romance.
... she responded in the fullest measure With all that could delight or give him pleasure.” Basically the Knight got a beautiful on the inside and out woman and wife. He never really got punished like he should’ve for raping that woman. In a way this seems to be mocking rape that solving a stupid question could get a man a beautiful wife and out of a crime he committed. He should’ve been killed in the very beginning of the story.
What does this fantastic story tell us about the knight's character and beliefs? This tale gives us insight into the Knight's sense of romance, passion, courage, loyalty and justice or fortune. Firstly, it shows us his ideal of one true, romantic love. He is virtuous and passionate, especially in his love-life. There was only one woman to be ...
Through the help of an old woman described as a “fouler-looking creature (Chaucer, 285)” by making a deal that he would do anything she required of him, the knight was able to give the correct answer to the Queen’s question. According to the knight, as told by the old woman, what a woman desires most is “ the self-same sovereignty / Over her husband as over her lover, / And master him; he must not be above her (Chaucer, 286).” Thus, the Queen declared the knight freedom from the punishment of death, while he was forced to accept the old woman’s request for his hand in marriage. While not a formal punishment, it was “torture that his wife looked foul (Chaucer, 287).” This punishment of marriage, however, to an old, “‘abominably plain,’” “‘poor,’” and “‘low-bred’” woman was only temporal. In order to “‘fufil [the knight’s] worldly appetites, she presents the anguished knight a choice on whether she remains old and ugly, but loyal or young and pretty, but attractive to other men. Rather than making the choice that pleased him, the knight left the choice up to the old woman saying “‘You may make the choice yourself, for the provision / Of what may be agreeable and rich / In honour to us both, I don’t care which; / Whatever pleases you suffices me (Chaucer, 291).” Happy to have been given a choice, the old
After the wedding the old woman prompted him with an option of what the knight wanted, either her being ugly and loyal or beautiful and unfaithful. The knight responds with an answer that compliments what all the woman want, “Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel over hir housbond as hir lov”(1044-1045). The knight allowed her to choose however she pleased which brought her joy and made her become beautiful and faithful. That took away the feeling of death the knight had and caused him to fall in love with the
The story “Royal Beatings” is a beautiful representation of a young girl’s view of the world around her. Munro uses vivid details to create a story and characters that feel real. She draws the reader in and allows the reader to understand Rose through her poignant words about her life. Then, in the end, enables the reader to make the connections that Rose perhaps misses. “Royal Beatings” is not about any particular moment in Rose’s life or any certain action related to the reader. The story is, in fact, not about plot at all. It is instead about creating characters with a sense of verisimilitude and humanity while revealing “all their helplessness and rage and rancor.”
romance and says that he wishes his own son was more like the Squire. This
The Wife of Bath tells the tale of a young knight whom, after the rape of a maiden, must search for the answer to the question, "what is it that women most desire?" The knight has one year to find the answer and return to King Arthur's court, or else he will be sentenced to death. The knight's journey does not go well. No matter where he goes or whom he asks, he does not get a good answer. As he approaches, they disappear leaving an old woman. She says that she has the answer to his question, but will only state it before the queen, and on the condition that he does whatever she asks of him. The knight agrees.
A knight is facing his death sentence by the Queen for raping a woman. The Queen allows the knight to search for a year and a day to figure out what women want most in the world; if he cannot find the correct answer, he will be decapitated. The knight goes on his quest for the answer, and receives different solutions from each character he meets. Some say women want money, others say love, some say sex, the list goes on. The knight is about to give up when he sees women dancing in the forest—once he approaches, the fairy-like women disappear and he is left with an old lady. The old lady promises that she has the answer that will spare his life, but in return the knight must promise to do something for her. The knight accepts and they ride to the court together to face the Queen. The knight proclaims to the Queen that women want to be in control of their husbands; the answer is accepted, and by keeping his word, the knight is forced to marry the old woman. The knight is distraught about the situation, causing the old woman to offer him the choice of her identity. The knight can choose to have her be young, beautiful, and unfaithful, or old, ugly, and faithful. The knight is so flustered that he allows his wife to choose her identity for herself; because he let the old woman decide, she chooses to become young, beautiful, and
...rtesy toward females are all tested in the poem. Sir Gawain who is supposed to embody these principles is tested by the Green knight and the lady and he fails to uphold the chivalric code. The failure leaves Gawain scarred for life but it also reflects a change in attitude towards capital violence and the role that it should play in the knights’ life. Gawain makes clear that there is a limit to how loyal and strict a knight can be when he is following the chivalric code and that the demands of the code are so immense that eventually a knight will fail to uphold the code. But this failure to uphold the code and not adhering to capital violence does not show cowardice and is in reality just human mistakes that are expected and are justified
... beloved wife has made the decision for him. After going through this incredible journey of his, not only did he study women but he had to explain what women most desired to the queen. Otherwise he would have been beheaded, but was spared because of his looks. Was this justice? Indeed it would have been justice back in the 1300’s because if you were beautiful you could be spared and do a noble deed for the king/queen as they asked. If you did not complete it who knows what could have happened. But for the knight, he completed what he was told to do and in fact after he raped the woman and he was being prosecuted, the journey of his made him find the true knight inside of him. The old woman choice that was offer to the knight demonstrated that he learned his lesson through his sufficient punishment and redemption for his crime.
The story begins with Arthur hunting a stag in the forest. After the kill of the stag he stumbles upon a giant of a knight, Sir Gromer Somer Joure. In order to live, the knight makes a deal with Arthur. If he returns in a year and a day with an answer to the question "What do women want?" his life will be spared. Arthur and his confidant, Sir Gawain, ride throughout the land with two books. In these books they write down the answers they receive from women all over the land to Sir Gromer's question. Upon comparing their b...
As stated before, events in the story lead to simple confusion, such as whether or not the use of the maidens to further the Knights quest or the maiden being insignificant because of her gender. Although the Knight did end up with a beautiful young loyal woman, the cost of this success is what speaks out. The knight gave the queen and woman what they both wanted. The queen wanted the knight to go out on a search and discover what it means to actually understand women and what they want, and the old lady to find a true love to break her spell. The story gives a win win to the majority, by only having the point come across. The knight had to give in and let the woman take control of the situation, as it states in the poem, "My lady and my love, and wyf so deere, I put me in youre wise governance; Cheseth youreself which may be moost plesance. And moost honour to yow and me also. For as yow liketh, it suffiseth me."(1230-1235). The knight handed all charge to his wife, proving that all women want is to take charge, and the knight granted that desire while also demonstrating the point of the queen's
The knight in the tale had no choice but to submit to the sovereignty of the old hag. If the knight was a little smarter and did his homework in trying to say, "Hey, how does this old hag know the answer to what women most desire? She’s probably never been with a man before!" The knight was ...