Le Morte d'Arthur

I. Biography Born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California, John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. grew up with three sisters and a love for words that grew with age. When Steinbeck turned nine, his aunt gave him Le Morte d’Arthur, by Thomas Malory and Steinbeck commented “‘When I first read it, I must have been already enamored of words because the old and obsolete words delighted me,’”. Steinbeck wrote for his high school newspaper and had decided he would be a writer when he claimed…

What was it like growing up during the 1900’s when familes were left poverty stricten? John Steinbeck’s childhood- growing up during the Great Depression, working many jobs, and experiencing horrible sites- played a major role in why he became a writer and what influenced his writings. Steinbeck soon became popular around the world because of his personalized novels. Inspired by his own life experiences and hardships, Steinbeck wrote notable novels including Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, and…

John Steinbeck was born February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, Steinbeck dropped out of one of the most elite colleges and worked as a laborer before he became a successful and well known writer. He wrote immensely about the economic problems faced by the hard working and lower class during the Great Depression. He was also a very successful American writer, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Grapes of Wrath, which was written in 1939, that…

Kimmel’s and Amy Aronson’s book Men and Masculinities, Raymond Chandler is described to have changed Philip Marlowe’s surname a number of times. He finally settled upon ‘Marlowe’ as a tribute to Thomas Malory’s work Le Morte D’Arthur, which retold the story of the Knights of the Round Table and King Arthur. Marlowe is often described as a modern knight fighting alongside General Sternwood. Marlowe is, in a sense, chivalrous in regards to women, as he isn’t easily manipulated…

deep self-conflict appears in her presentation as both mysterious and involved in the courtly love tradition. Malory’s work showed an English preference to steep the queen’s sexuality in mystery when he removed Guinevere’s explicit scenes from Le Morte D’Arthur and Vives’ aimed to erase women from society after the loss of virginity. Mystery implied innocence through ignorance, while the courtly love tradition acknowledged sex as the end goal of a Courtly flirtation. Capellanus’ argument that…

Avalon is associated with Glastonbury Tor, which some legends say was once a magic island surrounded by water. Morgan is one of the three queens that takes King Arthur’s body to Avalon to heal. As a witch and healer, she is said to know the power of both healing and poisonous herbs. In Avalon, She presided over nine priestess’s who were prophetesses and healers. Avalon is known to have been an oracular center. Some believe that Avalon was a Druidic college for priestesses of women’s mysteries.…

The development of the legend of king Arthur spans more than one thousand years. From the briefest mentions of a valiant warrior that fended off the Anglo-Saxon invasions of the island, to the elaborate in depth legend of a man destined to rule England with his knights of the round table. The development of this legend is a fascinating insight to how history was written, and more interestingly not written, and who ended up writing the version that stood the test of time. History is often written…