Analysis Of Sasson's Uneasy Lies The Crown '

As time goes on, our conceptions of the past tend to be distorted. This happens through many ways, such as misinterpretations of history, historical documents, and stories of the past. This is evident in nearly every book we studied, from Godric to The Wolf Hunt, to Inventing the Flat Earth. In this paper, I will show that no matter how hard a writer tries to stay true to the times of their novel, it is impossible to stay completely accurate to the time. This is because our modern views and beliefs will always find their way into our writings. My novel, Uneasy Lies the Crown, by N. Gemini Sasson is a prime example of this. In the novel Sasson tells the story of a man named Owain Glyndwr, she stays highly accurate historical wise, for the most …show more content…
Owain’s depicted as a demigod of sorts, when he is born in the novel it says “the sky rang out, as to welcome him into the world” (Sasson6) Even in the describing of Owain on the first page depicts him as something more than human. “He loved the land unto which he was born, as any true Welshman does. He wept quietly when the English scorched the crops and razed our towns, as if he had been burned and beaten himself. He smelled the smoke miles before anyone else saw the plumes lifting skyward. He sensed the storms upon the wind before they came” (Sasson1) This shows Owain to be more than human, a demigod of sorts. He has even been compared to the likes of King Arthur and Hercules. (Ben Johnson 1) Furthermore, the novelists view point of the Middle Ages is somewhat similar to my own. What mostly formed my picture of the Middle Ages was what I learned in school, most of which we learned is wrong this semester. But also, much of my picture of the past has been formed through pop culture such as many TV shows, movies, and novels. Most of these portray the Middle Ages as an awesome place with beautiful castle’s and such, but that simply isn’t completely true. It was much darker and dirtier than its