ENGLISH 4522 Lecture 3: Book I Canto ix
24 Apr 2017
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Summary (100-150 words max): after defeating duessa, arthur, redcrosse, and una ride off together. Arthur explains that he is of a noble birth and rightfully a prince. This raises questions for redcrosse and una, who ask what brought him to faery land. Arthur doesn"t give a very straightforward answer at first, instead telling them that he thinks fate brought him here. Eventually he explains that he is also searching for the. Shortly afterwards, arthur departs and gives redcrosse a gift. As redcrosse and una ride away, they encounter a fleeing knight named trevisian. Redcrosse stops trevisian and asks him why he is fleeing. Trevisian then explains that he is fleeing despair, who had just caused a fellow knight to take his own life. This troubles redcrosse, who demands to be shown the way to. When they arrive, redcrosse finds despair to be an old man sitting in a cave who tries to convince him to take his own life.
