ENGL1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Secret Love Affair, Morholt, Secret Affair
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Notes for tristan: parentage: note that tristan"s parents are dead, and that his father is uncertain; he ends up with three fathers, one dead. There is in addition rivalin and blanchflor"s love, and the ultimate unlawful act of tristan and isolde having an ongoing affair. Tantris, to tristan and isolde"s secret affair, which requires that they trick mark. Tristan himself is several times referred to as a trickster: god"s intervention (or not): if courtly love takes place in a world that was largely catholic (medieval. Europe), then this love, being personal, is often seen as breaking both social and religious laws. However, god is seen as intervening (or not) to help not only tristan, but the lovers continue their secret love affair. Tristan is the ideal of the courtly person, in part because he knows the proper use of language (which is both to reveal and conceal see "trickster" above).