Elaine of Astolat

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1. The changing environment for business affects Google’s ability to communicate in this situation because the lines have become increasingly blurred. The internet provides businesses with platforms by which to communicate with customers in ways that were unheard of before so companies like Google have become more involved politically than they were before. The actions that Google took in this case in choosing to cooperate with the Chinese government might have communicated a politically charged…

Teenagers are members of an uncontrolled circus, they are rollercoasters. Jerry Martin, a handsome young teenager, with golden hair brighter than the sun, was in a down swing of the rollercoaster. His Dad was blackmailing him, and he didn’t like it; not at all. He had promised Jerry ten thousand dollars, but only on the condition that Jerry received an OP1. And then came the lecture, “Life offers you many paths to choose from. You have to choose the one that is right, the one where you never…

Guinevere. Elaine of Astolat is the daughter of Bernard of Astolat and she too loves Lancelot. Lancelot was injured and Elaine said that she would take care of him. So he stays in her palace until he gets better. During Lancelot's stay at Elaine’s palace, he serves him many different types of wine. He soon falls asleep and thinks that he has fallen asleep with Guinevere. But really it was Elaine who put a love potion in the wine. “He turned round and found himself looking at the boiled girl,…

the lady’s being stuck in her own version of Plato’s allegory of the cave leads her to insanity. Lord Tennyson’s poem alludes to Camelot and the Lady of Shalott. The actual Lady of Shalott was a woman from arthurian legend named Elaine of Astolat. Elaine of Astolat was a woman who’s unrequited love for Sir Lancelot (a knight of King Arthur's round table) caused her death. Due to the lady’s instructions after her death she is placed in a tiny boat with a lily in one hand and her final note in…

The Lady of Shalott is about a mysterious young adolescent girl who is cursed to remain in the tower surrounded by water. Her curse is to continuously weave and only see the world through mirrored reflections and not experience life directly. She is forbidden to look out of the window at the world going on around her, so she looks through a mirror that is ever so conveniently placed where it has the view of Camelot. The mirror magically showed the truest colors of the yarn. She longs to be a…

writing, while Malory is more of a storyteller. Tennyson bases his work around Malory’s Morte d’Arthur and gives us his reactions to the female characters. His work can be considered a series of love poems. Theses are stories based upon female heroines. Elaine of Astolate, lynette, and Enid all are considered to be pure. Guinevere is the parallel, unchaste, to those women, but that does not make her any less of a heroine in the…

All of this, of course, assumes that Arthur actually isn’t aware of the betrayal he faces, a position which has been extremely prevalent in academic scholarship until fairly recently. However, this analysis fails to take into account several hints made throughout the poems that Arthur is actually suspicious of Guinevere’s affair. Vivien makes this accusation, claiming that Arthur “sees what his fair bride is and does, and winks” (VI. 780). Even Merlin, one of Arthur’s staunchest supporters, is…

Title Chivalry is a very intricate concept. The original meaning of chivalry is more of a moral, religious, and social code amongst medieval knights. It involves taking a vow to defend the church, to defend their country, and to be honest, generous, and brave. Sir Thomas Malory does a solid job of weaving the general theme of chivalry throughout his book Le Morte d’Arthur. Although almost all of the characters in Malory’s book possess flaws that cause major problems at some points, the majority…

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King was written in Victorian England and the latest version was published in 1885, though the actual writing process covered a span of almost 50 years. Tennyson bases the series of poems comprising the Idylls on the European myth of King Arthur and the court of Camelot and various other adaptations of that legend. The evolution of Tennyson’s female characters to their final stages underscores an undermining of traditional Victorian gender roles by…