ENGB31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bors, Virginity, Avail
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Narratives becomes almost allegorical; incidents freighted with religious symbolism: eg. Fiend represented the reign of evil on earth: the maidens castle represents the imprisonment of souls before the incarnation of our lod jesu christ and the seven knights the seven deadly sings which held sawy at that time. Meaning of adventures changes: my son , the quest of the holy grail means other things than killing your fellow men an those are the adventures to which you an you fellow sinners are accustomed . You yourself have killed many men and that is one reason why you shall not achieve the holy grail: galahad doen"t kill the seven brothers but garwain does it for him. Rules have changed completely; no longer about chivalry, and policing the country side, it is about personal spirituality. It was to be a long time before they with any adventures. Integrated the spiritual and worldly together: the completeness comes from offering himself to god.
