Answer at least two questions or come up with other topics of interest about which to write.
1. What strikes you about Yseut’s vindication and ambiguous oath? What kind of oath does she take here? It is satisfactory? Again we see her speaking with a “forked tongue.” What do you make of this manipulation of language (and in turn, manipulation of the entire situation)? Use specific examples from the text to support your response. [Related question: What larger ramifications might this have for the text as a whole (and in turn, all literature – what is a ‘story’ anyway?)]
2. Is anyone troubled by Tristan’s vengeance? Tristan and Yseut are only able to maintain a relationship through trickery, and as we see here, quite brutal violence resulting in murder. How are we to read these killings? Is murder justified here? What might this have to say about the love from which Tristan and Yseut suffer?
3. How are we to read Tristan’s madness? Is it far-fetched? More trickery? How might these symptoms manifest themselves today for instance?
4. Why do you think Tristan and Yseut must die at the end of the text? How do you interpret these deaths? How does the text present their deaths? Why do you think this is the case? How might the ending comment upon the text as a whole?
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3.Tristan madness comes from him not being able to see his lover and it just makes him go completely crazy while he travels back to Cornwell. It is definitely possible of him becoming crazy because he is traveling alone and sick from not being with Yseut. He is trickery when he pretends to be the leper and ends up hustling everybody but it was all part of his plan to win or become close to Yseut again.
ReplyDelete4.Tristan and Yseut must die at the end because it was all meant to be. They really loved each other and it showed when he died she could not live without him so she ends up dieing as well. These deaths are interpreted by true love. The text interprets their deaths as something that could happen because true love is real. It is similar to Romeo and Juliet. The ending goes back to when they first meet and shows that everything that happened throughout the whole story comes to a meaning that they really loved each other the whole time and everything happens for reason.