Joan Of Arc
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Submitted by blissy on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Joan Of Arc
The legends of King Arthur and Joan of Arc are stories which, throughout history, have been presented in numerous different ways, influenced and shaped by the culture and values of the times in which the texts were produced. Two such versions are Thomas Malorys’ “Le Morte D’Arthur” and Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan”, both revealing various political and cultural aspects of the particular time period. Through techniques general language and structure, characterization, we are clearly shown the values of the past –Christianity and religion, feminism, chivalry and a patriarchal society-values which evidently, impact the retelling of the legendary tales.
“Le Morte D’Arthur” was produced in the fifteenth century by Thomas Malory, the archaic language is indicative of the time period – “ye.. thyself ..mayst, putteth”. This was also the period of the existence of King Henry the 5th; an era where wars were also led against France by King Henry, including the Wars of the Roses. Thus due to this conflict between nations the issues of loyalty and patriotism is greatly enforced in “Le Morte D’Arthur”.
Malory wrote the story of King Arthur in chronicle style, where the stories are written in little units, their purpose to be read aloud, similar to serial episodes. This chronicle style allows Malory to write colloquially using the resources of common speech, where he at various points, omits a noun or verb, the effect being to make the story more colloquial and furthermore imitate spoken speech. Malory’s language also avoids elaborate sentence structure and the ‘romance’ element, rather structuring the romantic material in chronicle form. The sentences are further simple, lacking much physical description and imagery, however focus on moral aspects of human nature – “hundred good knights I have myself”. Thus we as the audience need to build an physical appearance to suit our ideal of the noble knight, which in our contemporary society may differ greatly to that of...
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