Endurance of the Arthurian Legend

These Arthurian Legends have endured this test of time because many people enjoy reading them still today. The writers of the medieval times period are writers that had such a great imagination of everything and that is what made these stories so good! These stories were filled with romance, the good vs evil, the battle field action, adventure, challenges, and even some have comedy and mystery. These great ideas are all combined in these stories to make them great and never forgotten. People of all ages and gender can read them if they have an imagination that can run wild.
The first reason these Arthurian Legends are so great and are still loved today is the action and adventure that is in it. These stories are full of adventure! In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain faces a new adventure every day. He left his home in search of the Green Knight and it started a great adventure for him. An adventure full of temptation and challenges. his greatest challenge was resisting the lady of the castle. A quote from this book, "That beautiful princess pressed him so hard, urged him so near to the limit, he needed either to take her love or boorishly turn her away."(lines 2770-2773). This quote kind of explains the temptation that Sir Gawain faced on his adventure in search of the Green Knight. There is also much action in these stories. Most of this action takes place on the battle fields. This action is very gruesome, lots of blood. which I personally do not enjoy very much, but it makes these stories the legends they are today.
The next reason these stories are so famous still today is the romance in them. Which is what i love about these stories. It makes them so great! There is romance in most all of these stories. In The First Knight there is romance between Sir Launcelot and Arthur's wife Guenevere. Even though she is supposed to be married to King Arthur there is a certain spark between the two of them. This wasn't the romance story like the one between Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell. Sir Gawain married her for who she was on the inside not the outside. This story was a true romance! Sir Gawain married the ugliest girl when he could have had anyone. He did it so his uncle would not have to die. "Gwain the finest knight in the land, was to marry this monstrous creature!"(Sir Gawain and the Lady Ragnell). In the end it was a happy ending because she turned back to her beautiful self. The stories of the medieval times stayed popular because of the romance part of it. The romance in these stories kept the women reading them not just the men.
Another big part of the reason that these stories are so popular still today is the good vs evil part of it. In all the stories of this time there is always constant good vs evil battles. These battles are especially shown in King Arthur's life. In the movie Excalibur, there is good vs evil through out it. Especially on the battle field, and i think that a lot of people like to see and read about good vs. evil. And in the end I think everyone wants to see the good win over the evil. And Mordrid is the evil in this. Arthur receives a warning that he will die. And in the end Mordrid stabs King Arthur and he does die. This story has many different scenarios on good vs. evil throughout the story.
In the end the Endurance of the Arthurian Legend lives on into today's time period. Everybody loves the stories from this time period just because it is a good read for everyone of all ages and both genders. If you use your imagination to a little bit you will love these stories even more! There is so much adventure and action but yet there is also so much romance! It is a great combination of everything. And that is why these stories are still so popular today!

Medieval Romance

Medieval Romance is truly a fairytale romance. Everything works out with these couples. They have the perfect romance. Their knight in shining armour comes riding in and saves them and they fall in love. These medieval romances convey a sense of of supernatural. They present a hero enraged in pure adventure. The hero is always going to save the lady. I really have enjoyed reading them though they make me feel so good even though it is chivalry. "It is a choice I cannot make, my dear Ragnell. It concerns you. Whatever you choose be fair by day or by night-"(Anonymous). I love this kind of stuff. He is being the great knight and marrying this ogre and letting her decide what she will look like by day or by night. A true romance but yet unrealistic because what girl can change what she looks like just like that. Even though I love this romance story it is full of chivalry as are most romances during this time period.

Beowulfs Fame

I think that Beowulf is being very selfish in his fame! He is being very selfish! Every fight that he fights he needs some kind of award for doing this great act. "...fame after death is the noblest of goals."(1388-1389). Beowulf never said that defeating Grendel and his mother was the right thing to do, only that he was going to gain so much fame from defeating these two people. Beowulf is only using his strength and courage to clear his family name and to receive fame. He is helping all these people for the wrong reasons. He should be willing to help those for the good that comes out of it, not for just the fame and power. And even all the gifts that he is receiving is driving him to become more and more on top of the world. He is using his strength and gaining popularity for all the wrong reasons. So, yes, I do think that Beowulf is being selfish in his attempt at fame.

Fifth Child Cover Choice

The cover that describes The Fifth Child the best is the one where the boy is looking out the window, the fourth one. Where he has his hand on the window wanting to get out and escape from his life. THats how his life is. "Now he was locked into his room each night, and there were heavy bars on the door as well." (Lessing 64). This cover shows how trapped Ben is in this world. It shows how he does not receive a lot of attention from his family, and how he is basically a prisoner in his own home. He is not a true part of there happy family. He is trapped in this life and there is no escape for him.

"It's alive. Again"

"It's alive Again."(Whitty). Stephen Whitty wrote an article about Mary Shelley's monster being alive again after 183 years of his literary birth. Mary Shelley was publicly humiliated and criticized. she lived a hard life of having many and most of her children die. i think that when she wrote Frankenstein she was putting her own life into part of the book and some of the character in it. this article makes sense in the fact that Mary Shelley wrote the book in comparison to her life. Shelley was different then most of the public so she didn't really fit in well with them. which was kind of the same in the case with the creature victor created. he could not fit in with man he had to struggle to live on his own. "Mary Shelley was not writing about the evils of science and progress. But suffering and loss and pain, the feeling of being ostracized-"(Whitty). the book did have horror and science but the book was filled with pain and suffering and loss as well. As Whitty says, "There's a bit of the creature in all of us." We all have some kind of creature in all of us and it is just waiting to come out into the world. Some of us have pain and suffering and others of us have joy and happiness. everyone goes through some sort of emotional even physical time on their lives, and Shelley put that in her book Frankenstein.

So far, my opinion of Frankenstein is that it is not as interesting as i thought it would be. When I first started reading Frankenstein I thought that it would be more like the movies that were made from the book. It is nothing like the movies. The movies changed around what the book says and does with everything. On part that is especially different then I thought it would be is the, "ITS ALIVE!!!"(Whale). this part in both the films and the book are different from each other. I personally thought that the book would be very scary and horrific, but it is not at all. The book is not scary it just has a lot of detail in it. This book is more detailed than anything else.
This book is good but i guess its not as good as i was expecting. I was expecting it to be more exciting more interesting and really scary! But in my opinion it really wasn't. A good quote from this book is from page 154 and it says, "...which i dared not trust myself to question but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom." This quote was put at the end of a chapter and its thought from Victor. This is when Victor is trying to create another creature for his first creature. That's another thing I really don't remember there being anything about another creature. This is the first i heard of another creature being created. This book is a good reading so far but its not as exciting and interesting as i thought it would have been.