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12 Cards in this Set
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Type of story? |
Frame - story that brackets (frames) another story or group of stories. |
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Setting? |
King Arthur days |
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What crime does the Knight commit? |
Rapes a girl |
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What are the Queen’s conditions for the Knight’s test? |
Find out what makes a woman happy and he only has a year and one day to do so. If he fails, he is executed. |
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Five things that women want most? |
Honor, fun in bed, jollity/pleasure, gorgeous clothes, and be equal or above men. |
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What is the frame story in this story? Moral of the story? |
The story of Midas to show how women can’t keep secrets. |
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Who does he encounter in the forest? |
24 dancing women; then the old woman |
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What are their agreement terms? |
Do whatever she tells him to do. |
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What does the Knight reveal to the queen that women really want? |
Self-sovereignty. Husband should be over the wife/woman. |
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What does the old lady request from the Knight? |
To marry her. |
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What three reasons does she give to rebuke the Knight’s claims about her? |
1)Common; she replies your actions make you worthy. 2)Poor, low-bred; she replies you don’t miss what you don’t have. 3)Old; she replies don’t use that against me. Older men are respected and so should older women. |
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What is his choice? How does it end? |
Whatever she wanted him to do. He gave her the power. They lived happily ever after in perfect bliss. And she turns young and beautiful. |
