The Barbarian and The Knight: An Insight Into Class Struggle The history of the world, unto this day, presents itself as a history of class struggle. Despite fictional literary works of the past being written off as luxuries that help no individual analyze the evolution of the socio-economic systems, past and present, the role of the main characters in their respective monomythic patterns not only display a shift in values and culture but in how society was organized in the low and high ends of the Middle Ages. In all, within the literary context, the heroes of these two works, whilst sharing a certain amount of values and cultural elements, for the most differ as a result of how much society changed over the centuries between the early Dark
