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also enjoy women having equal rights. The contradiction in this situation is that you cannot have real chivalry without inequality between men and women. Thankfully I’m not a bug about feminism. Though in the four main texts, Sir Gawain, The Song of Roland,…

Lydia Davis is a well-known short story author who has her readers’ question whether or not what they are reading is what she meant. In her short story “What She Knew Davis writes about a woman who believes she is an old fat man and does not understand why a young man is flirting with her. A woman is questioning why a young man is flirting with her when she is clearly an old fat man. The setting is not clearly stated one can say that this interaction takes place in an outdoor setting. The theme…

personal experience in order to author her music – a theme, which many would argue makes her relatable, authentic, and the key to much of her success. For this discussion it is beneficial to look at Swift’s role as author through the eyes of theorist Roland Barthes: “(b)ook and author stand automatically on a single line divided into a before and an after. The Author is thought to nourish the book, which is to say that he exists before it, thinks, suffers, lives for it, is in the same relation…

Roland Smith was born November 30, 1951 in Portland, Oregon. Roland claims ever since he was little he has always loved “the sound of the keyboard and the look of the letters and words that eventually turn into stories”. When Smith was 5 years old his parents gave him a keyboard. This keyboard was the best present he had ever received little did he know that this one small gift would later lead him being a bestselling author of children and young adult books. Roland went to the Portland State…

Today, films are made for entertainment purposes and are never completely accurate. With that being said, there are several scenes and events that take place in The Patriot (2000) that are not historically accurate. The director of the film, Roland Emmerich, helps give an idea of what the War of Independence was like in 1776. The producers of The Patriot include Dean Devlin, Gary Levinsohn, and Mark Gordon. They avoid much of the important aspects of the war other than the fact that the colonies…

one could say that these nightmarish places are the representation of his broken mind. For example, the main feature of the land is the wasteland. As in the ninth stanza Roland says: “Than, pausing to throw backward a last view/O’er the safe road, ‘t was gone; gray plain all round:” (IX. 3-4), which another possible clue that Roland is mad, as there is nothing left behind him, only a wasteland. It could be a sense of recovery too as all bridges have been burnt up behind him, so the past is no…

campaign in Spain would later influence the poem, The Song of Roland. The short poem was about Charlemagne’s nephew Roland. Roland fought during the Spanish campaign who died in battle when the Franks began to withdraw from Spain in 778. After the year 779, the Franks tried to take Spain from the Moors. They fought through…

The Wise and the Stubborn The Song of Roland is an anonymous poem that glorifies a knight and his sacrificial death. This excerpt was written in chanson de geste which is a literary genre that dominated medieval literature in the first half of the twelfth century. The genre also celebrates defeat and sacrificial deaths. In this passage of Song of Roland, two friends (Roland and Oliver) are on a mission to bring victory back to the possession of the Christian Franks. Unfortunately, their victory…

Saussure Within The Great Gatsby Structuralism can be described as a critical movement of literature that studies how elements of a text can be understood more efficiently by examining its relationship to the overall composition of a text. Ferdinand de Saussure, the “father of modern linguistics” (845) is a prominent critic in the Structuralism movement. The understanding of Saussure’s theory in Structuralism will be examined using mathematical examples and applied to interpret The Great Gatsby…

Aeneid and Song of Roland both feature strong, heroic men. Aeneas faced the dilemma in which he needed to have order and needed to find a place to settle and call home, all while Juno brought chaos to his life. Roland on the other hand, had two types of dilemmas one regarded more towards his behavior; he had a temper and was arrogant. The second with his step-father, Ganelon, whom was a traitor to his people. In the end: “… the French advised that Ganelon should die a death of torture” for his…