ENGL 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Intimate Relationship, Romanticism, Benwick

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1080
• Professor: Michelle Elleray

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Recap: ideology and hegemony ideology: a set of beliefs underlying the customs, habits, and practices common to a given social group. To members of that group, the beliefs seem obviously true; they may seem just as obviously arbitrary to those who adhere to another ideology. Someone"s making the food, making the clothes, supporting the nobles: failure of hegemony>peasants who refuse to buy into the idea of a king, consensus = culture buying into the sense of the world. The vengeance of sir gawain lancelot kills sir garrett, gawain didn"t want anything to do with the conflict until garrett was killed: swears vengeance against lancelot, arthur backs off, war becomes between lancelot and gawain. The siege of benwick : arthur and gawain leave england to fight lancelot, arthur returns. Mordrid but fights anyways: both arthur and mordid die in the battle, while arthur is in the process of dying arthur asks someone to take.