Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart makes the reader see that Merlin is not only a magical being, but a real person. Throughout the book the author pulls the reader into the world of fifth century adventure, suspense, and romance. This is all done by using imagery and a well rounded characters story. It all adds up to make the audience feel as if they are actually taking part in the life of Merlin unfolding. From the very beginning The Crystal Cave impresses with the paragraph: “ With the coming…

A principle can be adhered throughout one’s life from either following the beliefs and morals of others, or doing so through their own personal beliefs. For Sir Gawain, his are from a bit of both options. Given the fact that Gawain is considered to be King Arthur’s nephew, it is implied that he was given a strict conduct of rules to follow whilst growing up due to royalty. Also, being that he decided to stick by Arthur’s side and become one of his knights, it is shown that he had his own…

Gawain struggles with the ethics inforced by the chivalric code. Not only does this code of conduct apply to Gawain, but to other characters as well. In the story and other Arthurian tales, certain women such as Guinevere, Mary, Lady Bertilak, and Morgan Le Faye demonstrate the various capabilities of women,…

Idylls of the King, written by Alfred Lord, Tennyson, is a poem about King Arthur’s knights and his kingdom succumbing to corruption. It is also a tale that elaborates on the famous love triangle blossoming between King Arthur, Guinevere, and Sir Lancelot. Lord, Tennyson wrote his widely famous poem as a social commentary of the industrialized Victorian era and its supposed corruptness versus a time of no industrialization. Alfred Lord, Tennyson uses the power of motifs to describe the immoral…

Throughout our childhood we have been preparing to make critical career choices. These choices are based on whether we choose the college life or go right into the field of work after High School. As we grow we discover who we are as individuals and believe we know what we want to study or work in. Truth is, college students change their majors 2-3 times. Everyone thinks that we go to college to acquire skills for a specific job or career but, we go to college to become learners. College is…

Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla Analyzed Through Freud’s Psychoanalytic Criticism. In Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla we can see Freud’s Psychoanalytic Criticism in use with Laura and Carmilla. As the story unfolds Fanu’s slowly reveals more about Carmilla and Laura and we get a better understanding of the girls secret unconscious desires and anxieties. Through Freud’s Psychoanalytic Criticism the story takes on deeper meaning, from the conscious to the unconscious. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla explores…

This week’s discussion focuses upon Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I will herein go beyond the recitations of the story itself and address the story “between the lines:” Morgan le Fay hated King Arthur, and especially Queen Guinevere. Arthur was the half-brother of Morgan. Arthur was born as the result of a “magical” deception of Merlin, his Uncle (and the understood “Wizard of the Realm”). Morgan bemoaned that her father, the Duke of Cornwall, was killed so Arthur’s father, Uther Pendragon,…

When I was about 14 years old I saw a live concert on television in which Edward Van Halen performed some tapped bends on his electric guitar and they blew me away. He did some sliding taps and some bent taps and I immediately thought, "Wow, this man is truly a master of the electric guitar; he has absolute control over it and never makes any mistakes." Although now I consider tapped bends to be a fairly simple technique, they are still interesting musically, and the most difficult thing about…

Reality vs. Myth Sir Thomas Malory was influenced by the knights in his time to write Arthur becomes King. Sir Malory was born in Warwickshire, England, sometime around 1405. As a young man, Malory was a fairly wealthy landowner. He became a knight in 1442 and served in Parliament in 1445. He became involved in crime and allied himself politically with people and groups who opposed the royal government. He spent several years in prison for his crimes and political alle-giances while in prison…

The obscure creator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight enlivens the character of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur 's court who spares the life of his lord by tolerating the test of the Green Knight. All through his enterprises in the story, Gawain finds, creates, and exhibits his own particular chivalric qualities. He commits a couple of errors along the way, however endeavors to settle to no end not as much as flawlessness in unwaveringness, fearlessness and civility. The chivalric code…