Les Liaisons dangereuses

Life During the Middle Ages The knights followed a code of honor during the Middle Ages. They had to be brave, courageous and be loyal to the king. The excerpt Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Burton Raffel conveys chivalry and character during this time in order to show Gawain's integrity. During the Middle Ages there was a code of chivalry for the knights. It was a moral system which went beyond rules of combat and introduced the concept chivalrous conduct. Some qualities were…

Sir Gawain’s Knightly Ordeals Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a romantic epic poem by the Pearl Poet that follows a knight through his quest to complete a challenge he accepted from the Green Knight. King Arthur was raised by Sir Ector , married to Gwenevere, and he rose to power at Camelot, the Utopia kingdom. King Arthur’s knights had many stages they had to go through in training to prepare to be the best. Sir Gawain, one of those knights, is King Arthur’s nephew. He was the only knight…

unpredictability of nature. The knight’s attire is heavily compared to vegetation during Gawain’s description of him when the Green Knight first barged into the court. As we find out later on in the story, we the readers come to find out that Morgan le Fay plotted the entire event starting from the very begging which dismisses the Green Knight as the antagonist of this story which we previously believed him to be. The impulsiveness of these events can connect to the unpredictability of nature.…

Pablo Picasso was in love with a model and once again showed his emotions through colors such as pinks, and reds. This period was commonly referred to as “The Rose period” In 1907 Picasso created a painting unlike those any other artist had created. “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," was a chilling depiction of five nude prostitutes, abstracted and distorted with sharp geometric features and stark blotches of blues, greens, and grays. This painting opened the doors to…

In another segment of the film, King Arthur finds himself in the midst of a witch Trial. He listens to the towns people as they confront Sir Bedevere the Wise. The towns people accuse a woman of being a witch, because she is dressed like one (even though they are responsible for her outfit). Sir Bedevere states that there are other ways of determining whether the woman is a witch. He starts his explanation by stating that witches burn, and asks the peasants what else burns, to which they reply,…

Chivalry at Its Finest: (A Discussion over chivalry applied to four Arthurian motifs) The Anglo-Saxon code describes a code of behavior expressed in the Beowulf text. They lived by a code of glory, duty, and respect. The English created have a similar legend that outlined their warrior code. Their code as centered in the Arthurian motif. The story of Arthur combined with other stories make up the chivalry code used by English knights. These stories include the story of the Green Knight, Song of…

images are introduced here as a beginning of cubism. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is said to be Picasso’s first cubism painting but cubism style was already seen in the work “two nude women (figure 4)”. You can clearly see the similarities in the two. Even though the models are females working in a brothel in Barcelona, they all have some eland of African taste, the face, the hair, color of the skin and exaggerated fat and masculine bodies. In Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, however, more of a multi…

In the nineteenth century, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s texts present varying circumstances of inexplicable terrors situated in Gothic tradition to explore the political and social ideals fundamentally inherent in the Victorian age, particularly surrounding imperialism and sexuality. However, Le Fanu’s method of exploring and critiquing Victorian ideology of imperialism and sexuality are cleverly concealed under the prevalent supernatural elements present in his works. This is a concept that is…

The Mexican school wasn’t essentially a school but rather than a group of artists that believed the same thing and expressed with different ways. Every artist expressed it with different techniques, ideas, styles, and procedures. Each artist that was involved with the Mexican school created images to express the problems that were presented at the time. Some problems that were occurring are discrimination, dictatorships, and abuses of minorities. African American artists understood these views…

Chivalry is a religious, moral, and social code that knights of England followed. The code is similar to the Anglo-Saxon code. Many parts of the code are still honored in today’s society. Each time a man holds open a door for woman or somebody gives up their seat for an elder, chivalry is displayed. Chivalry was a standard set for all knights to follow. The main ideas of Chivalry that are displayed in the texts, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and, “Morte d’Arthur,” are, courage, honor and…