The Dark Knight

Eugene Delacroix, born on april 26 1798, was a French painter who had a lot of influence on Romanticism. He studied art at age 17 and he was mentored by academic painter , Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guerin. He learned from the romantic Landscapist and used dome of their techniques . Early on in his life, he demonstrated the influence that Michelangelo and Peter Paul Rubens, two excellent artist , had on his painting . Delacroix intensely studied Michelangelo’s modeling of figures and the life (or…

and his men all follow. Chivalry is prominent through the symbol of Sir Gawain’s shield. It has the five symbols of a real knight, there is friendship, being generous, being chaste, being courteous, and piety. Camelot is one of the testing symbols of chivalry in Sir Gawain. Arthur’s whole band is known because it’s so courteous toward others and it’s so good. The Green Knight is the tester in the eyes of chivalry. He says that they were merely words and that they’re nothing more than that, but…

Tennyson and Women It is proven in psychology that people have the ability to affect your mood and/or way of thinking. Queen Guinevere and other women in Arthurian literature have shown how their moods affect or don’t affect other characters. Specifically, it is the men that are affected the most. Guinevere’s characterization throughout Arthurian literature has been a negative one, but we have not fully looked through the scope of her own eyes. It is deemed that Guinevere was the cause of the…

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…

Predecessor to the 80’s cult classic, The Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal was legendary puppeteer Jim Henson’s first attempt at creating a fantasy motion picture filmed entirely with intricate animatronics and puppets. The film is complete with heroes, villains and the other main elements of fantastical narratives as described by Russian scholar and folklorist Vladimir Propp in his breakthrough work, Morphology of the Folktale, which states that there is a sequence of 31 functions — certain actions…

seemingly pathetic dreams of being a knight, like Kay was destined to be. Wart began to go on about how he would call himself the Black Knight. “ And I should have hoved at a well or a fjord or something and made all true knights that came way to joust with me in honor of their ladies, and I should have spared them after giving them a great fall…” (White 81). After hearing Wart complain, Merlyn agreed to let Wart see some real knights joust, and asks him to choose a knight to see. Wart thought…

the gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image : that of the sailor in the tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt the gunslingers own moaning future. He drowns Gunslinger the man in black was saying, and no one throws out the line. The boy jake ,But this was no nightmare This was a classic act by the man in black to trick Roland into believing jake was back from the dead and was seeking his revenge for his death. Marten transforms jake into a…

Cougar shifter Garrick, one of the immortal knights charged with protecting humanity, but he has been shirking his duty for far too long. No more. He will no longer mourn the death of his mate and he will move on. Besides, the witches that killed his mate are back, and his sword is itching to stab them through the gullet for the crime. When a human is attacked in the night by the dark forces that plague the knights, Garrick thinks this might be another case of a man in the wrong place at the…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Comparison Sir Gawain involved himself in a dangerous game when a stranger wandered into King Arthur’s hall. The stranger is called “the Green Knight” because both he and his steed are green. He came seeking adventure by requesting someone brave to play his game. The game calls for someone to strike the Green Knight with an ax, then in one year and a day the person who struck the Green Knight must find him and accept a strike from him. Originally, King Arthur…

society during the middle Ages. Also known as the Dark Ages, this was a time of unruly economic and social conditions, in addition to the lack of a strong central government. Knights served as heroes to a kingdom and were especially honored in such times of turmoil. Among this dark period of history came poetry filled with adventure, drama, and mystery. Written in the 14th century and not discovered until the 1800’s, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight became a poetic masterpiece. Sir Gawain served…