ENGLISH 4522 Lecture 4: Book I Canto x
24 Apr 2017
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Summary (100-150 words max): after redcrosse almost commits suicide from talking to despair, una takes him to the house of holiness, lead by caelia and her three daughters, fidelia, sperenza, and charissa. Fidelia teaches redcrosse about god, grace, and free will while sperenza comforts him so he does not despair. Patience hears about his suffering while penaunce, remorse, and reprentance cause him pain and then heals him. Charissa teaches redcrosse about virtue and they visit the hospital where the bead-men work. Then they visit contemplation, an old man who prays all day and night. He leads redcrosse to the top of the mountain, showing him hiersusalem, a city god created, so glorious that spenser cannot describe. If redcrosse comes back to see the path of holiness, he will be known as saint george, patron saint of england. Redcrosse was kidnapped as a child and raised in faerieland.
