the Story of the Grail

Gatsby towards his success (Fitzgerald 73). Gatsby starts off his story by claiming to be the “son of some wealthy people in the middle-west” in an attempt to establish himself as a member of the “old money” group, just like his East Egg counterparts (Fitzgerald 70). However, Gatsby’s improbable story only induces “incredulous laughter” from Nick, who is privy to the lifestyle of the rich upper class (Fitzgerald 71). In fact, Gatsby’s story “[evokes] an image … of a turbaned ‘character’” in Nick…

The Making of the Knights Templar “Like going on pilgrimage, to which they were often likened, crusading was an act of Christian love and piety that compensated for and paid the penalties earned by sin” (Richard Abels, par. 1). During the Medieval Time Period, the Christians would take pilgrimage to the Holy City of Jerusalem until it became increasingly dangerous as the Muslim Wars of Expansion threated the Holy City of Jerusalem. This sparked the Crusades: a series of Holy Wars where the…

The influence of the dominant cultural Christianity on the King Arthur narrative cannot be ignored. Mentions of the religion abound throughout the tale, particularly in the Quest for the Holy Grail. Arthur was portrayed as a devout Christian, even going into battle with a cross on his shield. However, Christian influences on the text could not have come from the original bards as Christianity first appeared in the country around 387 AD (Crichton 38). Therefore, somewhere along the way the…

2017. William Ferrell begins with a background on a western mythopoeia of King Arthur search for the holy grail. The holy grail is the cup Jesus Christ used during his last meal, the cup was later buried, but 800 years later Arthur in the corner of his eye spotted something and the search begins. The story of King Arthur relates to the modern messiah, Randle McMurphy. Mcmurphy's holy grail is to guide the other patients to freedom from the wicked Nurse Ratched. William goes into more detail…

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his novel The Great Gatsby to tell the story of Jay Gatsby, a man driven purely by his desire for Daisy Fay. A major theme in The Great Gatsby is the past, and the novel focuses on Gatsby’s effort to recreate the past. Although Gatsby grows up in a modest environment, he craves for a luxurious lifestyle by escaping his impoverished past and creating his own image. Gatsby’s conception of himself is a lavish figure, which he believes is ultimately his destiny. This new,…

How much are you willing to give the person you love ? Probably everything you have , love blind most people and also Gasby in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby gives up his goal for the women he loves. Gatsby went to the WW1 and come back sees his ex-girlfriend is already married, so he tries to earn lot of money and wanted to earn her back. He knows you need to have money and power to win the girl back, at the end he gives up his job to stay with the women he love. On the other…

(Alighieri 1725). In this place live people who are empty shadows, pale in color and only partly alive. The readers of Cervantes, Troyes and Alighieri still have stories with lines still to be written. Antonio Molina encourages modern readers to take on a new name as Alonso Quijano did, the modern reader must be both “author and master of his own story” (Molina 381). The foolish journey of the knight attracts the reader to better ideas that seem lost in the past and this modern day focus on…

times in the history of stories. Many believe that any and all stories follow the path of the hero’s journey. The movie Excalibur includes multiple hero journeys, but the most prominent one is that of King Arthur. By mistake, Arthur successfully attempts to remove the sword Excalibur from the stone, symbolizing that he is the rightful king of the land. This sets him on the task of acquiring respect and recognition, along with dealing with his affairs as king. Because Arthur’s story follows the…

the story continues we begin to see parts of the movie that would tell otherwise. At one point we see a man dressed in a full suit, and though we might think that it might just be a jump forward into the future to try and explain parts of the story, we then see a Knight run through the frame and kill the man, intertwining the two time periods into one. This happens several times, and finally at the end of the movie, as the Knights are charging forward with King Arthur to take the Holy Grail, we…

When we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail I noticed a few theme that the movie had touched on that interested me. So for it to have some themes being satirized in it is no surprise, but the ones i want to talk about are some very memorable jabs at previous examples of epics. The themes I will talk about is historical reference, supernatural elements, and king arthur’s court. The story is based in the middle ages before the Norman Conquest in England, they actually reference this by having…