“Ride out, good Cid Campeador, for no man ever set forth at so fortunate a moment. All your life you will meet with success (The Poem of the Cid, 43).” “To king Alfonso, whose wrath I have incurred, I wish to send as a gift, thirty horses with their saddles, fully harnessed, and each with a sword hanging from the saddle-bow (The Poem of the Cid, 65).”
The desire to take back Spain from the Moors has always been a top priority for the Christians of Spain. The Muslims started controlling Spain in 711, starting with the fall of Granada. Ever since then, the Christian struggle to take back Spain from the Moors, and slowly started building their own army. The Christians of Spain believed that Spain is their country, and should not be governed by …show more content…
They are made. Such is the case of the Cid. The struggle that the Cid faces during the Spanish Re-conquest enabled him to meet the requirement of a hero according to Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell was an American writer. In his The Hero with a thousand faces, Campbell argued that there are several stages of the hero journey: call to adventure, supernatural aid, abyss, victory and transformation. The challenges that the Cid went through during the Spanish Reconquista transform the Cid into a great leader. The Cid is presented in the The Poem of the Cid as a functional umbrella that houses the quality and attitude of the Christian Spain during the Re-conquest. Through the Cid’s heroic self-transformation, the poem reveals that the Christian Spain value loyalty and wars more than any other …show more content…
According to The poem of the Cid, the Cid dreamed that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in his sleep and told him that he will be victorious (page 43). This emphasizes the importance of being trustworthy. There has never been a mention of an angel or supernatural being appearing in a dream, except to prophets, or people of good nature. The writer is suggesting that the Cid is a noble human being, one that is not only trusted by his men, but also by God to take Spain back from the Moors. The writer of the Poem of the Cid made the Cid appear as a savior and the equivalent of a prophet to save Spain from the Moors. To do so, the writer included the dream that the Cid experiences about the angel Gabriel as an inspiration to the Cid’s victory, a supernatural aid, per se. Furthermore, since the Cid is a Christian, this also suggest that loyalty is a supreme and ideal values that is unique to the Christians of
The desire to take back Spain from the Moors has always been a top priority for the Christians of Spain. The Muslims started controlling Spain in 711, starting with the fall of Granada. Ever since then, the Christian struggle to take back Spain from the Moors, and slowly started building their own army. The Christians of Spain believed that Spain is their country, and should not be governed by …show more content…
They are made. Such is the case of the Cid. The struggle that the Cid faces during the Spanish Re-conquest enabled him to meet the requirement of a hero according to Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell was an American writer. In his The Hero with a thousand faces, Campbell argued that there are several stages of the hero journey: call to adventure, supernatural aid, abyss, victory and transformation. The challenges that the Cid went through during the Spanish Reconquista transform the Cid into a great leader. The Cid is presented in the The Poem of the Cid as a functional umbrella that houses the quality and attitude of the Christian Spain during the Re-conquest. Through the Cid’s heroic self-transformation, the poem reveals that the Christian Spain value loyalty and wars more than any other …show more content…
According to The poem of the Cid, the Cid dreamed that the angel Gabriel appeared to him in his sleep and told him that he will be victorious (page 43). This emphasizes the importance of being trustworthy. There has never been a mention of an angel or supernatural being appearing in a dream, except to prophets, or people of good nature. The writer is suggesting that the Cid is a noble human being, one that is not only trusted by his men, but also by God to take Spain back from the Moors. The writer of the Poem of the Cid made the Cid appear as a savior and the equivalent of a prophet to save Spain from the Moors. To do so, the writer included the dream that the Cid experiences about the angel Gabriel as an inspiration to the Cid’s victory, a supernatural aid, per se. Furthermore, since the Cid is a Christian, this also suggest that loyalty is a supreme and ideal values that is unique to the Christians of