Chivalry

Chivalry is the code of conduct on which someone, in particularly the Knights, acts on honor, courage, and to protect the Queen and all women. I’m sure that we all know someone who acts on this basis and strives to make it so he gets it to where everyone else does. In today’s world we don’t call it chivalry, instead its called rules and laws, laws that keep us in line so we don’t get out of control and accidentally do something that we shouldn’t have done. I know in wrestling and every other sport we have these special rules that go for everyone on the team, we can’t do anything that will become an issue with our training. It’s kind of like in every where that we have regulations, no smoking, no drugs, no this or that, but sometimes those are hard rules to follow and when they are broken there are consequences. In the two stories Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Morte D'Arthur we see knights actually following the code of “Chivalry.”

The first example of “Chivalry” can be found in Morte D’Arthur when Sir Bedivere shows his courage to King Arthur. When he finds King Arthur lying in the field dying he weeps “Then Sir Bedivere wept for the death of his brother.” (page 191 middle of page) he weeps but soon he stops because it is cowardly to weep over someone who fought for his honor. Soon after King Arthur has him take his sword (Excalibur) and throw it in the water even though it’s a holy sword and he could take it for his own well being. He shows courage by showing that he will do what the King wants and will do it in a timely manner, but he doesn’t throw that sword in the water. He shows courage by betraying his King but still sticking around to see what the Arthur wants him to do next.

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...ver the many years and evolution we had to change and modify our Chivalry code so that we can all accommodate to it. Yet I don’t believe that we are as strict upon this code as they were back then. Of course back in those days there was no prison, or court, or any type of justice system that could benefit the criminal, it was either you did it and you were sentenced to death, or you didn’t do it and you’re free to go. I do think it would be nice to have something like that now because then I think there would be a lot more crimes, and for sure a lot less of the taxpayers money going into the justice system to fund these big pointless cases like the one with Trayvon Martin, the guy killed a kid it doesn’t matter if he was trying to kill you, just injure him and get the heck out of there. Just silly people nowadays, can’t live with them and can’t live without them.