Chivalry and Courtly Love Certain words and phrases are able to conjure up entire scenes, images of a time long past. So too is it with the term “Middle Ages.” Immediately upon hearing such a phrase, the individual’s mental picture of the times is brought to the forefront, but not the Middle Ages as they were, but as they have been romanticized to be. The phrase conjures up pictures of castles, of fiefdoms, peasant villages, kings and queens, lords and ladies, dancing, merriment, great feasts, jousting
Dramatic Structure To Sir, with Love embodies a conventional three-act structure. However, the protagonist, Mark Thackeray, is faced with multiple active antagonists. The first act introduces Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) as a Communications engineer who, after many unsuccessful attempts to find employment in his field, takes a teaching position at the North Quay Secondary School. Once he has arrived, Thackeray is informed of the rebellious nature of his assigned students, who mostly come from
Love is a difficult thing to express in words in any given language. It is near impossible to convey the paradoxical pain and pleasure of love that sounds dreadfully horrid but simultaneously magical. Most people are often confused and have a hard time figuring and sorting out exactly how they feel and felt about their love and relationship. However, to love someone or be loved by someone is a special gift, and to be able to convey your gratitude for whatever you received out of the relationship
Movie to Sir with Love II we follow Mr. Thackeray (Sir) on a journey as he decides to go to an inner-city Chicago school where he will be teaching once more. He then meets up with an old friend and former colleague Horace who is the principle of the school. Sir then selects a classroom full of hoodlums, ruffians, and any other word used to describe ill-mannered juveniles to instruct. The students are dastardly and don’t appear to have even the slightest amount of respect for anyone. Sir addresses
critically analyse the discourses, positions and relationships, as well as certain individuals habitus’ (after Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992, cited in Gale & Densmore, 2000), which influence the classroom of Mark Thackeray (Sidney Potier) in the film To Sir with Love (Clavell, 1966). Via this analysis, I argue that the film portrays a simplistic, commercial palatable rather than a realistic image of the challenges of teaching, leading the viewer to a distorted perception of the implications of the various discourses
The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, was written by an anonymous poet, otherwise known as, the “Gawain Poet” or the “Pearl Poet”. Nothing conclusive is known of the author’s identity or biography. However, the poem was likely written in the mid to late fourteenth century or the 1300s, in northwestern England. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is easily identified as a Medieval romance, do to the poem’s plethora of characteristics of a typical Medieval romance. Although Sir Gawain and the Green
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Chivalry vs. Courtly Love The story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight revolves around the knights and their chivalry as well as their romance through courtly love. The era in which this story takes place is male-dominated, where the men are supposed to be brave and honorable. On the other hand, the knight is also to court a lady and to follow her commands. Sir Gawain comes to conflict when he finds himself needing to balance the two by being honorable to chivalry
The fourteenth century English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight depicts aspects of different kinds of “courtly love”. The poem contains elements of courtly love as well as spiritual, and brotherly love. These elements can be appreciated by Gawain’s respect to Guinevere and Lady Bertilak, the bond between the Knights of the Round Table and Gawain’s devotion to the Virgin Mary. Courtly love is defined as a medieval literary concept where love is idealized and often illicit. Usually, the participants
In “Astrophil and Stella” sonnet one by Sir Philip Sydney is about the speaker’s love towards Stella. While “Jordan (1)” by George Herbert is about the speaker’s love towards the divine (God). Both of these sonnets are similar as both poems are wanting to convey their love through formal features. However, I will be arguing in this essay that the formal features are not expressing the speaker 's love but is questioning their love. Furthermore, love is challenged through the formal features of imagery
"With detailed reference to any 3 incidents in the book, show how Mr Braithwaite changes the behaviour and attitudes of the class." When Mr Braithwaite first encounters his class they are an unruly group of people who never manage to keep a teacher for long. They were mostly unkempt and scruffy and weren't very well educated as Mr Braithwaite found out on his first day, " Twenty-six of the class were girls, and many of their faces bore traces of make-up inexpertly or hurriedly re-moved, giving
The aim of this assignment is to present an exploration and explanation of the process of transformation in and through education. This will be shown by looking at some scenes from the films, Freedom Writers and To Sir with Love. To begin with I want to consider what we understand by ‘education’ Education is an activity we all feel that we know something about, having had personal and direct experience of it. Education has become a large industry employing many hundreds of thousands of people in
The Art of Courtly Love, Consolation of Philosophy, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part 1: Consolation of Philosophy, written by Boethius 1. Boethius was a popular member of the senatorial family. He was a philosopher that agreed with Plato that government should be solely in the hands of wise men. After becoming consul, charges of treason were brought against him. He lived in a time in Roman society when everyone was mainly Christian. He was an Arian Christian and believed that Christ
Nymph's Replay To The Shepherd" is written by Sir Walter Raleigh. This poem is reactiaction for the poem "The passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe's. "the passionate Shepherd to His love" poem talks about the about the moment love and the pleasure of the moment love. Malowe's believed that love should includes any future planning or promises and he emphasies living in the moment idea. The poem " The passionate Shepherd" idea is about love and how it suppose to be in present , it should
Comparing Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Sir Walter Raleigh wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" in 1600 to respond to Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" written in 1599. In " The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", the Shepherd used double-entendres and hidden sexual images in an attempt to trick the Nymph into performing sexual intercourse with him. The Shepherd attempted to
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph to the Shepherd” are both poems that can be compared and contrasted in many ways. Both poems greatly represent pastoral poetry and would be considered as pastoral lyrics. Between the two poems, they are connected but also at the same time distant from one another. Readers will notice how they differ in terms of one being a question and the other poem replying to the question given. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe is an
Twelfth Night is a play written by William Shakespeare and illustrates themes of love and truth. In Shakespeare’s playwright of “Twelfth Night”, characters imply truths to show their love. Many characters love differently and give subtle hints to show their love. Malvolio &Olivia, Sir Andrew & Olivia, and Viola & Duke Orsino are all characters who imply their love, for their significant other. To be completely mad is never possible when you have the wits to stay out of trouble. In Twelfth Night Malvolio
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night The first speech that Orsino gives us an idea on how his love towards Olivia , this shows his fickle personality because in the first line he asks to be fed with love, and asks for music which then gives us that he’s “romantic” but just after a few lines he changes his mind “if music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it…. This quote shows how he can change his mind in just a matter of short time this also might explain how he was able
problems he creates in the play In a variety of ways. Twelfth Night is a traditional Shakespearean comedy, full of confusion, disguised identity and a ending where most of the main characters marry one another these includes…Olivia, Sebastain, Sir Toby and Maria end up marrying, Orsino, Viola Although the date is unknown when the play was written it was first preferred in 1602. It is not really what we call comedy in relation to what we call comedy today. At the time it would have been
are separated, each believing the other is dead. After assuming Sebastian’s dead, Viola disguises herself as a boy where she becomes really close to the Duke Orsino and falls in love with him. But, at that time Duke Orsino is in love with the Countess Olivia, who is not in love with the Duke, but she instead falls in love with Cesario and Olivia breaks her own contract of not marrying for seven years while mourning her own brother’s death. The Countess’ household consists of Fabian,
thinks he is Viola, as she is dressing as a man. Viola is in love with Orsino but Orsino is in love with Olivia and Olivia is in love with Viola, this creates a love triangle. Also in the play there are servants and two knights who produce a lot of humour. In conjunction to the love triangle there are three additional plot lines in the play, they involve Malvolio, a servant, finding a love letter, a duel between Viola and Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Olivia proposing to Sebastian, as she thinks