Love Heals All Wounds Love. Nowadays, it is such a trivial word, so quickly and easily thrown around. “I love this” and “I love you,” being said within days or weeks of meeting someone. There is little to no weight behind the word now. Love came in many forms in the past. It meant being willing to give up everything, your body and honor included, for your beloved. Even if that beloved belongs to someone else. That is what happens in The Arthurian Romance, “The Knight of the Cart.” Lancelot, a knight who remains unnamed for a majority of the story, risks everything he has to save the one that he loves. She is Queen Guinevere and the wife of Lancelot’s king. Their love is not a physical one, yet it does not seem to solely be based on loyalty. But it, unlike many of the loves of the modern era, is a pure one in which
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He chooses the shorter, but more dangerous path along the Sword Bridge in order to arrive at the Queen’s side quicker. In order to grip onto the sword better, he removed the armor from both his hands and his feet, because he would rather “maim himself than fall from the bridge into the water from which there was no escape” (245). Choosing the lesser of two evils led him to crossing the hazardous bridge, at the end of which “love…comforted and healed him at once and turned his suffering to pleasure” (246). Here, one can see the first real example of Love personified. Love makes his sacrifice enjoyable. It forms Lancelot back into the person he was before the injuries. In other words, Love made him stronger than he was, helping him to get through the trials and tribulations that he put himself through in order to get to the “person whom he desired to see more than anyone else in the world” (252-253). It was not entirely his own strength, pride, or the aid of others that allowed him to get as far as he did, but his Love for the queen that he
He chooses the shorter, but more dangerous path along the Sword Bridge in order to arrive at the Queen’s side quicker. In order to grip onto the sword better, he removed the armor from both his hands and his feet, because he would rather “maim himself than fall from the bridge into the water from which there was no escape” (245). Choosing the lesser of two evils led him to crossing the hazardous bridge, at the end of which “love…comforted and healed him at once and turned his suffering to pleasure” (246). Here, one can see the first real example of Love personified. Love makes his sacrifice enjoyable. It forms Lancelot back into the person he was before the injuries. In other words, Love made him stronger than he was, helping him to get through the trials and tribulations that he put himself through in order to get to the “person whom he desired to see more than anyone else in the world” (252-253). It was not entirely his own strength, pride, or the aid of others that allowed him to get as far as he did, but his Love for the queen that he