Chrétien De Troyes 'Beowulf'

Chrétien de Troyes may be the most influential romances author who introduces a new literacy genre, Arthurian Romances. Romances is really a special genre, which cannot be more different than the previously popular genre, the epic. The epic mainly concreates on strength, valor, courage, and military prowess. One of the best examples of epic is Beowulf. Meanwhile, epics also describe how a person become a good solider or a powerful warrior and finally accomplish personal heroic. In contrast, the romances written by Chrétien de Troyes focused on a different aspect which manly about people’s emotions. The protagonists’ emotions are described as well as their actions in his works.

The first crucial theme of Chrétien de Troyes works is that

Chrétien de Troyes do describe characters’ emotions and thoughts specifically. In the previous works like epic, emotions just plays a limited role in the whole work, such as the epic Beowulf. The epics mainly focus on the process that people become a great warrior, how they defeat their enemies and how they save other people, especially the weakness. Obviously, personal heroic is the main theme of such epics and characters’ own emotions are well ignored. However, Chrétien de Troyes showed the readers an emotional world in his works. To take Lancelot as an example, the conflict that when he has to decide whether or not he should go into the cart so that he can get closer to the queen exemplified this well. Emotions and actions of characters usually effect each other and make the audience feel like that it’s like themselves. In epics, the characters are far away from the readers because they’re heroes. But in the Arthurian Romance, the characters is much more similar to the audience because of their emotions, the emotions of them make characters like a real human rather than a legend. This theme is prominent and