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1. Gawain gives a speech on pp. 326-327. What is the outcome of this speech (in other words, what does this speech accomplish, for better or worse)? How do you interpret the agreement Yvain then makes with Laudine? What kind of agreement is this? Would you want to accept such an agreement? Why or why not?
2. What is the “build-up” Chrétien employs leading to Yvain’s shame? What is Yvain’s problem? How do you interpret the text here (pp. 328 – 329). Use specific quotes from the text to support your answer.
3. Why does Yvain react the way he does to Laudine’s messenger? Why do you think we have this specific reaction? What might this imply? What happens in the wilderness? Do you notice any changes within Yvain during this part of the romance? What are they? How do you interpret these changes? (And what do you make of his “cure”?)
4. At the mid-point of the romance we have Yvain’s encounter with the snake and the lion. What do these animals represent within the romance (and within popular mythology)? What is the dilemma Yvain faces here (on a deeper level)?
5. How do you interpret the dilemma Lunete encounters with the accusation of the barons? (We have seen something similar with Tristan and Yseut). Who is right and who is wrong (or can we even use these words)? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
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3. Yvain reacts very quick to Laudine's messanger and is deeply hurt and his heart is destroyed of the news he hears. The news is that he broke the promise with his lover and she wants nothing to do with him. He goes crazy when he is in the wilderness and tears his clothes and eats animals raw. He changes drastically like a scavenger and looks like he got out of a crazy home naked. When he is cured by the lady, he awakes in amaze of what has become of him and does not know what to do and rest at the house while he recovers.
ReplyDelete5. The dilemma Lunete encounters with the accusation of the barons is that they like to start trouble and want her killed like in Tristan and Yseut when Yseut was suppose to be burnt. It shows similarity between them.In the text "so like a woman:miserly with the truth, and generous with lies! The knight who's come to die on your account is crazy."