In his Arthurian Romance The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser …show more content…
Spenser shows his readers this by allowing Redcrosse Knight to be Patron Saint George, for the root of George is linked to the Greek word georgos, which means someone who works the land. “ For thou emongst those Saints, whom thou doest see,/ Shalt be a Saint, and thine owne nations frend/ and Patrone: thou Saint George shalt called bee” (FQ, 1.10.61). Due to this, the reader can see that Spenser favors a Georgic hero who does not follow the ordinary delineation of an epic hero, for georgic hero’s labor and trial while maintaining humility. Spenser favors the idea that a man can have faults and remain loyal to God while living his life without the need to find heroism. Due to this assertion, the reader is made to question whether or not it is more beneficial to be a georgic hero or epic hero, for the georgic hero can remain closer to God while the epic hero receives the glory that he