Slay The Dragon Analysis

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“Fear and hate can be vanquished with but one deadly weapon, the rarest and most beautiful double-edged sword of all, the sword of love. For while love may cause pain, it is still how we all begin and many end.
“In women, love runs deep and true, spanning the life cycle from maiden, to mother, to crone. Thus, it is a woman’s job to slay the dragon, despite what the chroniclers tell you.
“Women? The weaker sex?” The narrator tossed her head back and laughed, then strode off stage and walked down the center aisle separating the seats in the crowd. “I say nay, as women bear the secret to life in their very wombs, something a man can never know.”
She strode back up the aisle and stopped at the king’s seat. “What, jealous?” she asked, and Carlton …show more content…

The king, wanting to be fair, put the matter up to vote, and the people decided the dragon needed to be killed. Thus, the king and men rode out into the woods, bearing crossbows and lances, to slay the dragon.
As the queen predicted, such action did nothing but enrage the dragon, and the beast lay siege to the castle every day from sunset to sunup. The people were exhausted, but each morning, the king and his men-at-arms rode out, trying to find the dragon’s secret daytime hiding space.
The play carried on with more wonderful moments and hysterical veiled sexual references, until the penultimate moment, when the queen and Sir Dar are faced with the dragon attacking the castle, alone, during the daytime, as everyone else had fled, or was out seeking the dragon to destroy him.
The dragon breathed down fire and rocks came crashing down. Audra was concerned for a moment, worried the actors might get injured, then realized she’d become so swept up in the story that it wasn’t real rocks that fell, but gray cloth fashioned into …show more content…

“We’ve no choice now. I’ll not have my queen die!”
The queen laid down her sword at her feet and approached the beast. “No.” She stared into his eyes, reached out, and patted the dragon’s long snout. “The dragon does not want war and hate; in his eyes, I see what he desires. He wants a home and to be understood, the things all men and women want. He wants to belong and be loved.”
Like a satisfied puppy, the dragon dropped his head to the floor and grunted with approval.
The king and his men made their way back to the castle, and upon seeing the tame dragon, they all feel to their knees and praised the queen. She proclaimed they were to make a den for the dragon close to the castle, and she would visit the beast each day. Sir Dar was the first to say he would help build, then the other men chimed in.
Over time, other villagers and courtiers began to visit the dragon in his fine, new den in a clearing by the river. The dragon had friends now and was pleased.
The case of actors faded into the background as the narrator took the stage again.
“Yes, the dragon wanted nothing more than the deepest desire of all men and women – to be

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