Knight with the Lion (Yvain) part 3

1.  Yvain gives himself a new nickname because he is being reborn.  After everything with him going crazy in the woods, he wanted to forget Yvain, the knight who lost the one he loved and everything he cared about, and instead wanted to become a new person, this person is the brave knight with the lion.  Yvain wants to have his new image so that he can start a new legacy as the knight with the lion.  As far as Yvain knows the name Yvain is dead and that person who was formally known as Yvain is no longer exists, he is only the knight with the lion.

2.  The sisters are very different.  The older sister seems to have evil intent.  She wants all the land so she immediately gets Gwain, who is a knight with few equals.  This creates a problem for the younger sister because it will be hard to find a knight strong enough and brave enough to go up against Gwain.  The younger sister knows only one knight who might be strong enough, and this leads her to the quest of finding Yvain.  

Knight with the Lion (Yvain) part 2

4.  When Yvain encounters the lion and the snake I think it is a parallel to his journey.  The lion represents Yvain.  Lion's usually represent courage, and Yvain is full of courage, he does not waste a minute and will easily take on giants, dragons, and many soldiers.  The snake could represent the evil that Yvain has encountered.  Snakes are usually evil monsters, like in the story of Adam and Eve the serpent or snake represents temptation and evil.  Also this snake could represent the struggles Yvain has gone through.  In a way if Yvain had let the lion die, then maybe it would be like he let himself die, and gave up on himself.

5.  Lunete's dilemma was pretty interesting.  It is easy to see how the barons are mad at her because Lunete set the queen up with Yvain, and Yvain broke the queens promise, and in turn broke her heart.  However Lunete was just looking into Yvain and the queens best interest.  I think it was very cruel how they intended to treat Lunete and her only chance to live was to find a knight brave enough to fight in a 3 verse 1 fight, that just does not seem fair.    

Knight with the lion (Yvain)

2.  Calogrenant's story is a very epic tale.  It is unlike any other one we have discussed so far, it is most likely to show that this journey is one of great danger.  The story is one that any knight would want to accomplish.  It makes the reader seem that these trials are almost impossible.  The one part of the tale that I found to be the most interesting was how when you pour the water onto the stone it makes a storm of epic proportion.  This storm is so fierce that it has a brave knight cowardly huddling begging for it to be over.  This storm seems to be the summing of the knight to fight.  It is also weird how you have to go through a dark creepy thorn encased with dark shadows that lead to a beautiful meadow which then turns into a horrible storm, then you see a beautiful tree with birds, which leads to a knight to fight with.  It really shows light and dark sides, it seems to be very crazy, and unpredictable this is probably my favorite reading yet.

3.  Yvain is a very interesting character.  He seems to want to be looked at as a very glorious knight.  He is also pretty selfish, his kings-men clearly said that they would like to go with him on his glorious journey however he wanted to do this by himself and prove to everyone that he is a very noble knight.  Also he seems to be very vein in that he wanted the queen based only upon her looks. 

Eric and Enide questions part 2

3.  Erics intentions for taking Enide on this adventure is most likely for Eric to make sure that Enide knows Eric is the best knight around, and that no matter what people say about him, he will always be the best.  He easily beats eight knights with little trouble, to prove to Enide that he is the best.  However this journey could also be a way for Eric to test Enide's love for him, he tells her constantly not to talk to him, or warn him of any dangerous yet she constantly does, and he never hits her or harms her in any way for doing so.  

4.  Enide's inner monologues show that she is torn between what to say.  Throughout the text she has to decide whether to warn Eric and go against his wishes, or to simply say nothing and fear that Eric may be killed.  However every time she decides to warn Eric, this shows that she is truly in love with him, and that nothing will stop her from helping her love. 

Eric and Enide questions part 1

3.  I would characterize Enide obviously as the most beautiful woman ever.  However she also seems to be very quite and shy.  She does not speak all that much, she is a very well mannered woman and comes from a loving family.  The text says looking at Enide would be like glazing into a mirror.  This could mean that generally when a person looks in a mirror they tend to stare at their self for a while making sure they look nice and paying close attention to every little detail on them.  In other words Enide is so beautiful that if you were to look at her you could not help but stare at her for a while and it would be hard to just look away.  Eric seems to be a very noble knight.  He is brave and smart, and has a great sense of honor.  It seems the two of them are a perfect match, and they could be together for a very long time.

4.  The second challenge was an interesting one.  This challenge involved men fighting for their woman.  It shows how in their time the woman were just supposed to look beautiful and wait for their knight in shinning armor to get them the bird, which could be their love.  It shows how the men will risk everything to honor their woman, they will fight off many other knights and try their best to ultimately win their woman's honor and love.

FYS questions part 3 Anthony Bonitatibus

3.  Tristain goes mad in this book most likely because of the fact that he is no longer able to see his love Yseut again.  Tristain is not ok with this, he even grew weak because of this.  Driven by love he decided to go back to Cornwall to see his love again.  However this time he goes to Cornwall disguised as a leper.  Tristain puts on a robe, makes himself walk funny and seem old and sick just so he can be with Yseut again.  No matter how dangerous this could of been Tristain would of probably killed himself if he could not see her again.

4.  It is understandable how Tristain and Yseut must die at the end of this novel.  If the novel had just ended with them being apart than the whole book would of been for nothing, they had to die because they had a love that was forbidden and anytime something would happen to them or they tried to be together they would have to end up running or killing someone.  They were bound to each others love, and the only way for them to break free of that, was through death.  Death was the only way for them to be able to be at peace since they knew they could not be together.  

FYS questions part 2 Anthony Bonitatibus

1.  Tristan and Yseut loved each other so much that they would accept living in the woods for a decent amount of time.  Living in the woods was not the best place to live for a former queen and knight.  Tristan would spend most of his time hunting so they could have food to feast on, and still that food was not enough, for Yseut grew very skinny, showing they were not eating that much.  They had to sleep in a blanket of leaves, on the dirt.  They also had to live their time in fear that King Mark would one day find them, and that would lead to their death. They were completely isolated from the rest of society all because of their "love", luckily they came to their senses and decided to leave because of the potions effect that worn off.

4.  The love potion that they were given only lasts for 3 years.  After the final day has passed, Tristan and Yseut both have a great realization, that their love is not going to work.  Tristan says that he feels bad for making Yseut sleep on a bed of leaves and sticks, when before they ran into all the trouble Yseut was sleeping in silk sheets, and had servants doing all of her bidding.  They decide to get help from Orgin who tells them to go back.  This could be because they love each other so much that they know they have to separate to live good lives, or simply because they have no more feelings for each other.  When they part however they decide to give each other an item that is very important to them, this shows that maybe their love was true, and they still do love each other, and that the potion had no affect on them when it wore off and that they just had to do what was best for each other.

FYS-100 Assignment 1

This book says a lot about love and how people perceived what true love was in their time period.  Even though Tristan and Yseut are in love, its only because they had a love potion.  So its hard to consider their love true love.  True love usually involves two people falling in love because they are meant for each other, not because they drank the same potion.  It is possible that they truly started to fall in love the more time they spent together but the potion makes it seem that there love was forced upon them rather then them falling for each other.  However the two character seem to be head over heels for each other.  They risk getting in a lot of trouble all the time just so they can be together.  The novel so far is saying a lot about love and how the characters are in love, and how they are doing all sorts of risky things just so they can be together.  That shows that they are now in love, and only want a happy ending.

As of this part in the book it seems that King Mark has it the hardest.  The King finds out that his wife is cheating on him with his nephew, and he has been lied to numerous times throughout the story thus far.  All sorts of people want him to kill Tristan and Yseut because they are going behind his back, on the other hand a lot of the people in his town have grown fond of Tristan and look at him as the knight in shinning armor, who cannot be defeated, and when they found out he was going to be killed they all tried to talk the King out of it.  But the king seems to just want revenge, Tristan and Yseut both looked the King in his eyes and told them nothing was going on and that they just have a friend relationship, they even found a way to lie to him when they went to meet and the King was "secretly" spying on them from atop the tree.  Thus far in the book it seems the King had some hard times, and was lied to numerous times.