ENGL 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6: Tiber, Collective Memory, The Faerie Queene

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 202
• Professor: Maggie Kilgour

Document Summary

The faerie queene: spenser describes tfq in a letter to sir walter raleigh as an allegory in 1590. Invites us to interpret the characters and adventures in the several books in terms of the particular virtues and vices they enact or come to embody. Redcrosse knight of book 1: knight of holiness. Sir guyon of book 2: the knight of temperance. Female knight britomart in book 3: the knight of chastity (chastity here meaning chaste love leading to marriage) Heroes of book 4,5,6: represent friendship, justic, and courtesy. Poe(cid:373)"s ge(cid:374)eral purpose (cid:862)to fashio(cid:374) a ge(cid:374)tle(cid:373)a(cid:374) or (cid:374)o(cid:271)le perso(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:448)irtuous a(cid:374)d ge(cid:374)tle dis(cid:272)ipli(cid:374)e(cid:863) Individual moral qualities taken together constitute the ideal human being: pe(cid:374)ser"s allegor(cid:455) Have a surprisingly complex, human relation to their allegorical identities. Grow in to these identities through only painful trial and error in the course of their adventures: adventures: Repeatedly take the form of mortal combat with sworn enemies.